Feeding ecology of short-tailed shearwaters: Breeding in Tasmania and foraging in the Antarctic?

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 167, Issue , 1998, Pages 261-274

  Weimerskirch, Henri ^a   Cherel, Yves ^a  

^a CENTRE D ETUDES BIOLOGIQUES DE CHIZÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Allocation; Antarctica; Chick growth; Diving depths; Energy gain; Foraging efficiency; Puffinus tenuirostris; Resource partitioning; Seabirds

Indexed keywords

BREEDING BIRD; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; FORAGING; PROVISIONING; SEABIRD;

ANTARCTICA; AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

AVES; CEPHALOPODA; CICONIIFORMES; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUPHAUSIACEA; GALLUS GALLUS; MYCTOPHIDAE; PROCELLARIIFORMES; PUFFINUS TENUIROSTRIS;

EID: 0032543585     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps167261     Document Type: Article

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