How do planktivorous Least Auklets (Aethia pusilla) use foraging habitats around breeding colonies? Adaptation to mesoscale distribution of zooplankton

Oceanology

Volumn 42, Issue SUPPL 1, 2002, Pages

  Flint, M V ^a,b   Golovkin, A N ^c  

^a SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PLANKTIVORE; PREY SELECTION; SEABIRD; ZOOPLANKTON;

BERING SEA; UNITED STATES;

AETHIA PUSILIA; CALANIDAE; COPEPODA; NEOCALANUS CRISTATUS; NEOCALANUS PLUMCHRUS;

EID: 0011884866     PISSN: 00014370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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