Southern Elephant Seals (Mirounga leonina) in the Galapagos Islands and the Eastern Tropical Pacific Amid Ocean Environmental Changes: Towards a Habitat Suitability Index.

Abstract:

The southern elephant seal (SES; Mirounga leonina) is the largest, sexually dimorphic pinniped species in the global ocean. The distinctive feature for males is the proboscis; the maximum development of this feature occurs in adults over 10 years of age. They are distributed throughout the circumpolar region, sub-Antarctic waters, and Antarctic ecosystems of the Southern Hemisphere. Four genetically different populations are currently recognized, including subpopulations from Peninsula Valdes and the Falkland Islands, the Atlantic sector (South Georgia, South Orkney Islands, South Shetland Islands, and Bouvetoya and Gough Islands), the Indian sector (Iles Kerguelen, Iles Crozet, Heard Island, and the Prince Edward Islands), and the Pacific sector (Macquarie Island, Campbell Island, and Antipodes Island).

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2022

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