Foraging modes of chinstrap penguins: Contrasts between day and night

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 165, Issue , 1998, Pages 161-172

  Jansen, John K ^a   Boveng, Peter L ^a   Bengtson, John L ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diel activity patterns; Diet composition; Ecological monitoring; Euphausia superba; Foraging trip duration; Myctophid fish; Pygoscelis antarctica

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; CHINSTRAP PENGUIN; DIURNAL ACTIVITY; FORAGING ACTIVITY; PREY CONSUMPTION;

ANTARCTICA; SEAL ISLAND; SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS;

EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA; EUPHAUSIACEA; PYGOSCELIS ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0032493071     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps165161     Document Type: Article

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