THE BEHAVIORAL BASIS FOR NONLINEAR FUNCTIONAL RESPONSES AND OPTIMAL FORAGING IN ANTARCTIC FUR SEALS

Ecology ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 398-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshihisa Mori ◽  
Ian L. Boyd
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Foraging ◽  
Functional Responses ◽  
Nonlinear Functional ◽  
Fur Seals ◽  
Antarctic Fur Seals

Fur seals, whales and tourists: a commercial history of Deception Island, Antarctica

Polar Record ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 210-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Stephen Dibbern
Keyword(s):  
South Shetland Islands ◽  
Deception Island ◽  
Commercial Activity ◽  
Early 19Th Century ◽  
Cruise Industry ◽  
Shetland Islands ◽  
Fur Seals ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Antarctic ◽  
Antarctic Fur Seals

ABSTRACTDeception Island in the South Shetland Islands was the site of some of the earliest commercial activity to be carried out in the Antarctic with the early 19th century hunting of Antarctic fur seals. Nearly a century later it was the site of the most extensive anchorage for the reconstructed ships and ocean liners used as non-pelagic whale processing factories. Deception was also the site of what is the only successful land based commercial activity in Antarctic history. The Hektor whaling station operated in Whalers Bay from 1912 until 1931. Most of the remains of the station have now been obliterated by the volcanic activity that occurred in the late 1960s and 1970. By the later part of the twentieth century Deception Island had become a regular stop for the growing Antarctic tourist cruise industry. No other place in Antarctica has been so thoroughly identified with commercial activity.

The influence of diet on foraging habitat models: a case study using nursing Antarctic fur seals

Ecography ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 748-759 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth M. Casper ◽  
Michael D. Sumner ◽  
Mark A. Hindell ◽  
Nicholas J. Gales ◽  
Iain J. Staniland ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foraging Habitat ◽  
Habitat Models ◽  
Fur Seals ◽  
Antarctic Fur Seals
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