Food of Flesh-footed shearwaters Puffinus carneipes associated with high-seas driftnets in the central North Pacific Ocean

Emu

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 168-173

  Gould, Patrick ^a   Ostrom, Peggy ^b   Walker, William ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIET; DRIFTNET FISHERY; FLESH-FOOTED SHEARWATER; SCAVENGING; SCAVNEGING;

(NORTH); PACIFIC;

BRAMA JAPONICA; CNIDARIA; COLOLABIS SAIRA; MYCTOPHIDAE; OMMASTREPHES BARTRAMI; PUFFINUS CARNEIPES; VELELLA;

EID: 0031423942     PISSN: 01584197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MU97020     Document Type: Article

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