Climate change impacts on Antarctic marine top predators

气候变化对南极海洋顶级掠食者的影响

• 批准号: 2877833
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2877833
• 关键词: Climate; change; impacts; Antarctic; marine

The project will be building habitat models from two sets of tracking data from two colonies of Antarctic fur seals, one in South Georgia and one on the Antarctic peninsula. It will also utilise stable isotope analyse on whiskers and seal teeth from these colonies that have been collected over the last 100 years. This should give us data on how their diet and nutrition has changed over time. One colony on South Georgia has a population that is in decline, this study could help identify possibilities for this decline.

该项目将根据两组南极毛海豹的跟踪数据建立栖息地模型，其中一组在南乔治亚州，另一组在南极半岛。它还将利用对过去100年收集的这些殖民地的胡须和海豹牙齿进行稳定同位素分析。这应该会给我们提供关于他们的饮食和营养随着时间的推移发生了怎样变化的数据。南乔治亚州的一个殖民地的种群数量正在下降，这项研究可能有助于确定这种下降的可能性。