Climate change impacts on Antarctic marine top predators

Funder	Natural Environment Research Council
Recipient Organization	University of Exeter
Country	United Kingdom
Start Date	Sep 30, 2023
End Date	Mar 30, 2028
Duration	1,643 days
Number of Grantees	2
Roles	Student; Supervisor
Data Source	UKRI Gateway to Research
Grant ID	`2877833`

Grant Description

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.