Use of at-sea distribution data to derive potential foraging ranges of macaroni penguins during the breeding season

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 169, Issue , 1998, Pages 263-275

  Trathan, P N ^a   Murphy, E J ^a   Croxall, J P ^a   Everson, I ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

At sea; Colony counts; Eudyptes chrysolophus; Macaroni penguin. Foraging

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; SEABIRD; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANTARCTICA; SOUTH GEORGIA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

APTERYGIFORMES; AVES; CHRYSOLOPHUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUDYPTES CHRYSOLOPHUS; EUPHAUSIACEA; GALLIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 0032490850     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps169263     Document Type: Article

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