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Oxygen minimum zone: An important oceanographic habitat for deep-diving northern elephant seals, Mirounga angustirostris

2017
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Ecology and Evolution

Naito, Y., D. P. Costa, T. Adachi, P. W. Robinson, S. H. Peterson, Y. Mitani, and A. Takahashi

Little is known about the foraging behavior of top predators in the deep mesopelagic ocean. Elephant seals dive to the deep biota-poor oxygen minimum zone (OMZ)...
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Keywords: Mirounga angustirostris, Northern elephant seals, Oxygen minimum zone