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The annual numbers of Leopard Seals (Hydrurga leptonyx) sighted at Macquarie Island (over 56 years) are correlated significantly with periodic flux of sea-ice concentration south-east of the island. Abstract of the SCAR Open Science Conference, Hobart, 12-14 July 2006, 2006 (Ref: 12524)
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Burton H.R.Venegas S.Van den Hoff J.Raymond B.M Curran M.
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This paper provides the first evidence to relate Leopard Seal numbers with sea-ice … concentrations in a region of the Eastern Antarctic pack ice and to propose a biological … mechanism (krill availability) to link the two. Leopard seals have been periodic, and sometimes numerous…

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