Fig. 3: The tracks of two individual seals during their foraging trips as a function of water-type classes and normalized prey-catch attempts. | Communications Biology

Fig. 3: The tracks of two individual seals during their foraging trips as a function of water-type classes and normalized prey-catch attempts.

From: Influence of the phytoplankton community structure on the southern elephant seals' foraging activity within the Southern Ocean

Fig. 3

Two individual SES tracks with different foraging regimes during 2018, where “2018–2041” forages to the west of Kerguelen between 23 October and the second of January, while “2018–2040” forages to the east between 22 October and the first of January. The plot on the right highlights the value of the NormPrCA at each bio-logging observation. The plot on the left highlights the water-type class at each SES bio-logging observation collected during the foraging trips. The mismatch between observations' density in both plots is mainly due to unavailable satellite matchups when cloud conditions or poor-quality pixels occur. Bar graphs for each SES showing the frequency of each water-type class encountered during the trip (blue bars), as well as the mean NormPrCA plotted per class (orange star and line), are included.

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