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Southern elephant seal demography

University of Tasmania, Australia
Volzke, Sophia ; McMahon, Clive ; Wotherspoon, Simon
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Cite data as: Volzke, S., McMahon, C., & Wotherspoon, S. (2023). Southern elephant seal demography [Data set]. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies. https://doi.org/10.25959/W2SC-E717

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The Southern Ocean has been disproportionately affected by climate change and is therefore an ideal place to study the influence of changing environmental conditions on ecosystems. Changes in the demography of predator populations are indicators of broader shifts in food-web structure, but long-term data are required to study these effects. Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) from Macquarie Island have consistently decreased in population size while all other major populations across the Southern Ocean have recently stabilised or are increasing. Two long-term mark-recapture studies (1956-1967 and 1993-2009) have monitored this population, which provides an opportunity to investigate demographic performance over a range of climatic conditions. This provides insights on individual vital rates of known-age seals from Macquarie Island over extensively long timeseries.

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Maintenance and Update Frequency: notPlanned
Statement: Between 1951–1965 and 1993–1999 weaned Southern Elephant Seals were captured and marked permanently by hot iron branding. Seals were recorded in regular re-sights varying from daily isthmus searches during the breeding season to ad-hoc sightings outside of active monitoring. Biological data from individual short-term scientific projects include information on the physical condition for a sub-set of pups and adult seals. This record includes the code and materials for analytical tools used to study climate influences on individual survival.

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The Australian Antarctic Division through the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) supported this research. The study was carried out at Macquarie Island under ethics approval to Harry Burton from the Australian Antarctic Animal Ethics Committee (AAS 2265 & AAS 2794) and the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service.

Data time period: 1956-01-01 to 2009-12-31

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AGRICULTURE | ANIMAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR | ANIMAL SCIENCE | CLIMATE INDICATORS | EARTH SCIENCE | MARINE ECOSYSTEMS | Macquarie Island | Mirounga leonina | Offshore Islands (Australia) | Offshore Islands (Australia) | Macquarie Island | biota | breeding population | capital breeder | demographic modelling | mark-recapture studies | predator demography | predator ecology | resight effort | southern elephant seal |

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(README - data file structure and R-markdown instructions)

url : https://data.imas.utas.edu.au/attachments/94f859d3-922b-4fdd-b6e9-3a6186477bdc/README.txt

(DATA ACCESS - download full data package (including code) [.zip 6MB])

url : https://data.imas.utas.edu.au/attachments/94f859d3-922b-4fdd-b6e9-3a6186477bdc/Volzke_MPM-2023.zip

Sophia Volzke, Jaimie B. Cleeland, Mark A. Hindell, Stuart P. Corney, Simon J. Wotherspoon, Clive R. McMahon; Extreme polygyny results in intersex differences in age-dependent survival of a highly dimorphic marine mammal. R. Soc. Open Sci. 1 March 2023; 10 (3): 221635. (Associated publication)

doi : https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.221635

Volzke, S., McMahon, C. R., Hindell, M. A., Burton, H. R., & Wotherspoon, S. J. (2021). Climate influences on female survival in a declining population of southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina). Ecology and Evolution, 11, 11333–11344. (Associated publication)

doi : https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7919

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ACN 633 798 857