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| Jaud, Thomas; Dragon, Anne-cecile; Vacquie Garcia, Jade; Guinet, Christophe. |
| Recently, a number of Antarctic marine environmental studies have used oceanographic parameters collected from instrumented top predators for ecological and physical information. Phytoplankton concentration is generally quantified through active measurement of chlorophyll fluorescence. In this study, light absorption coefficient (K-0.75) was used as an indicator of phytoplankton concentration. This measurement, easy to obtain and requiring low electric power, allows for assessing of the fine scale horizontal structuring of phytoplankton. As part of this study, Southern elephant seals (SES) were simultaneously equipped with a fluorometer and a light logger. Along the SES tracks, variations in K-0.75 were strongly correlated with chlorophyll, a concentration... |
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| Ano: 2012 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00589/70150/68129.pdf |
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| Rivière, Pascal; Jaud, Thomas; Siegelman, Lia; Klein, Patrice; Cotté, Cedric; Le Sommer, Julien; Dencausse, Guillaume; Guinet, Christophe. |
| Sub‐mesoscale fronts—with scales from 1 to 50 km are ubiquitous in satellite images of the world oceans. They are known to generate strong vertical velocities with significant impacts on biogeochemical fluxes and pelagic ecosystems. Here, we use a unique data set, combining high‐resolution behavioral and physical measurements, to determine the effects of sub‐mesoscale structures on the foraging behavior of 12 instrumented female southern elephant seals. These marine mammals make long voyages (several months over more than 2000 km), diving and feeding continuously in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Our results show that elephant seals change their foraging behavior when crossing sub‐mesoscale fronts: They forage more and at shallower depths inside... |
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| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00584/69636/67497.pdf |
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