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Satellite Tracking of Adult Female Steller Sea Lions in the Western-Central Aleutian Islands Reveals Diverse Foraging Behaviors

 
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Figure 1. GPS location data for five adult female Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) captured in the western and central Aleutian Islands during October 2012. Top left insert: study area; top right insert: movements of sea lion “=28” relative to ETOPO 2-ft gridded elevation data; bottom left insert: movements of sea lion “=27” relative to a mean composite of chlorophyll-a (mg/m3; Aqua MODIS, oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov) for the month of October. GPS data range through 2 January 2013.

 


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