Seasonal change in the foraging ecology of emperor penguins on the Mawson Coast, Antarctica

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 156, Issue , 1997, Pages 205-223

  Kirkwood, Roger ^a   Robertson, Graham ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Diet; Diving behaviour; Emperor penguin; Prey consumption; Sea ice Foraging ecology; Seasonal change

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; DIET; EMPEROR PENGUIN; FORAGING BEHAVIOUR; SEASONALITY;

ANTARCTICA; MAWSON COAST;

ALLUROTEUTHIS ANTARCTICUS; APTENODYTES FORSTERI; AVES; CEPHALOPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA; EUPHAUSIACEA; GALLUS GALLUS; PAGOTHENIA BORCHGREVINKI; PLEURAGRAMMA ANTARCTICUM; POLARIBACTER; PSYCHROTEUTHIS GLACIALIS; SPHENISCIDAE; TREMATOMUS;

EID: 0030921224     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps156205     Document Type: Article

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