Project information
ROGERS, Dr Tracey
University of New South Wales
Prydz Bay, Davis
Project aim
This is an integrated program which examines the foraging behaviour of the leopard seal, one of the top order predators within the Southern Ocean ecosystem. Top order predators are sensitive indicators of change. The program will test whether there are seasonal and annual fluctuations in their foraging behaviour responding to climatic changes.
Related publications
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Responses of Antarctic pack-ice seals to environmental change and increasing krill fishing. Biological Conservation, 2012
(Ref: 14758)
Authors:Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
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Food transit times in captive leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx). Polar Biology, 2010
(Ref: 14741)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
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Trace element analysis in the serum and hair of Antarctic leopard seal, Hydrurga leptonyx, and Weddell seal, Leptonychotes weddellii. Science of The Total Environment, 2008
(Ref: 14742)
Authors:Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
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Influences of Female Pupping Habitat and Maternal Care on the Vocal Repertoire Size of Male Phocid Seals Aquatic Mammals, 2005
(Ref: 12019)
Authors:Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
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Uncommon or cryptic? Challenges in estimating leopard seal abundance by conventional but state-of-the-art methods Deep-Sea Research 1, 2008
(Ref: 13311)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
The method traditionally used to estimate pack-ice seal abundance employs sighting surveys from ships or aircraft to … estimate the number of seals hauled out on the ice, combined with studies of haul-out behaviour to estimate the proportion … of time spent on the ice.