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Lewis M, Campagna C (2016): Records at sea of juveniles southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) from Península Valdés, Argentina. v1.0. ArOBIS Centro Nacional Patagónico. Dataset/Samplingevent. http://arobis.cenpat-conicet.gob.ar:8081/resource?r=mleonina_juv&v=1.0
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Keywords
Samplingevent; Southern elephant seal; Juveniles; satellite tracking; SW Atlantic Ocean; South Pacific Ocean; Patagonia; locations at sea
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Geographic Coverage
The geographic coverage includes the Patagonian shelf, from the edge of the Patagonian shelf and to the Argentine Basin in the SW Atlantic Ocean, and South Pacific area. Mixed subtropical-subpolar waters characterize five oceanographic regimes in terms of water masses, currents and productivity. 1) Open continental shelf waters of subantarctic origin. 2) Shelf break front a narrow transition region between subpolar (Malvinas/Falkland Current) and shelf waters. 3) Subtropical waters carried by the Brazil Current collide with the cold-fresh subpolar waters of the Malvinas Current. It is characterized by enhanced meridional gradients of sea surface temperature and salinity, and its location has high seasonal and interannual variability. 4) Subpolar characterized by low salinity, cold temperatures and high concentrations of nutrients. 5) Polar with low temperature (<4 °C) and relatively high nutrient concentration waters derived from the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-58.75, -81.68], North East [-34.52, -27.86] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The resource includes a unique specie. Scientific Name: Mirounga leonina (Linnaeus, 1758) Common Name (s): Southern Elephant Seal, South Atlantic Elephant-seal, Southern Elephant-seal (English). Eléphant De Mer Austral, Eléphant De Mer Du Sud (French). Elefante Marino Del Sur (Spanish)
| Species | Mirounga leonina (Southern elephant seal) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2003-11-20 / 2004-02-01 |
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| Start Date / End Date | 2004-07-12 / 2004-12-02 |
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| Start Date / End Date | 2005-07-26 / 2006-08-02 |
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| Start Date / End Date | 2006-12-28 / 2007-10-17 |
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Sampling Methods
Satellite tags (SPOT4/SPOT5, Wildlife Computers, Redmond, Washington, http://www.wildlifecomputers.com) were deployed on juveniles southern elephant seals, during haul out at Península Valdés, Patagonia, Argentina. Tags were configured to send information through Argos System as soon as the animals entered the water.
| Study Extent | Records coverage the positions at sea during the foraging pelagic trip that includes the Patagonian shelf, from the edge of the Patagonian shelf and to the Argentine Basin in the SW Atlantic Ocean, and South Pacific area. Most of the records of each animal are one trip from and to Peninula Valdes. Each location was provided by the Argos System (http://www.cls.fr) and the frequency depended of the behavior of elephant seals at sea and their time surface intervals. |
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| Quality Control | The behavior of elephant seals at sea and their short surface intervals precludes high accuracy with position fixes. An filter was applied to reject records that would require a travel rate greater than 2.8 m/s (10 km/h). |
Method step description:
- Instruments (Wildlife Computers, Redmond, Washington; instrument description at: http://www.wildlifecomputers.com.) were glued directly on the fur of the head using a 10-min setting epoxy resin (Campagna et al., 1999). Anesthesia protocols to deploy and recover instruments were described in Campagna et al. (1995, 1998, 1999). Tags were configured to send information as soon as the animals entered the water, 24 h per day with repetition rates of 45±6 s in 2003-2004 and 40±6 s in 2005-2006. Locations were received daily via e-mail; Argos provide the estimated accuracy of each location, however, a filter was applied to exclude locations that would require an unrealistic travel rate.
Bibliographic Citations
- Campagna, C.; Piola, A.R.;Marin, M.R.; Lewis, M.; Fernández, T. 2006. Southern elephant seal trajectories, fronts and eddies in the Brazil/Malvinas Confluence, Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers 53(12):1907-1924, December 2006. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2006.08.015
- Campagna, C.; Piola, A.R.; Marin M.R.; Lewis, M.N.; Zajaczkovski, U.; Fernández, T. 2007. Deep divers in shallow seas: southern elephant seals on the Patagonian Shelf. Deep-Sea Research I 54:1792–1814. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2007.06.006
- Campagna, C.; Fedak, M.; Lewis, M.; Thompson, D.; Trathan, P.; Staniland, I.; Wilson, R.; Marín, M.R.; Falabella, V. 2009. Pinípedos IN Atlas del Mar Patagónico. Especies y Espacios Lugar: Buenos Aires; Año: 2009; p. 202 – 237. Online: http://www.atlas-marpatagonico.org
- Eder, E.; Lewis, M.; Campagna, C.; Koch, P. 2010. Evidence of demersal foraging from stable isotope analysis of juvenile elephant seals from Patagonia. Marine Mammal Science, 26 (2), 430-442. DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2009.00347.x
- Eder, E.B., Lewis, M.N.; Marín, M.R.; Campagna, C. 2011. On- and off-shelf diving effort of juvenile elephant seals from Península Valdés determined by light loggers. Journal of Mammalogy 92(4): 811-818. DOI: 10.1644/10-MAMM-A-292.1
- Lewis, M.; Campagna, C. 2007. Mamíferos Marinos IN Atlas de Sensibilidad Ambiental de la Costa y el Mar Argentino, D. Boltovskoy (ed.). Secretaría de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sustentable de la Nación. Buenos Aires.
- Campanga, C.; Lewis, M. 2008. Mamíferos Marinos IN Foro para la Conservación del Mar Patagónico y Áreas de Influencia. 2008. Estado de conservación del Mar Patagónico y áreas de influencia. Puerto Madryn, Argentina, Edición del Foro. Online: www.marpatagonico.org, http://www.marpatagonico.org/libro/articulo.php?id=lewis-campagna-mamiferos-marinos
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
| Alternative Identifiers | http://arobis.cenpat-conicet.gob.ar:8081/resource?r=mleonina_juv |
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