Intermittently breeding adult female southern elephant seals from Marion Island that skip reproductive seasons and the associated diving and environmental conditions experienced by these females at-sea from 2007 to 2012

This dataset underpins the research conducted in my MSc Zoology dissertation titled 'The at-sea behaviour of intermittently breeding adult female southern elephant seals from Marion Island'. It contains the at-sea location and associated diving data collected from six specific southern elephant seals from Marion Island from 2007 to 2012 (including daily dive duration, depth, and frequency). It also contains environmental data (net primary productivity and bathymetry) that was associated with each at-sea location collected at 24 hour intervals. Each data point also contains the year and season the data was collected, the age, sex, reproductive strategy, and behavioural mode of the animal, and the interfrontal zone in which the location was found.

本数据集为本人在《马利恩岛间歇性繁殖的成年雌性南方象海豹的海洋行为》这一题为硕士学位论文的研究奠定了基础。数据集涵盖了2007年至2012年间从马利恩岛六只特定南方象海豹采集的海洋位置及相应的潜水数据（包括每日潜水时长、深度及频率）。此外，还包括了与每个海洋位置相关的环境数据（净初级生产力和海底地形），这些数据以每小时24次的间隔收集。每个数据点还包含了数据收集的年份和季节、动物的年龄、性别、繁殖策略、行为模式以及该位置所在的前额区。