Olfactory foraging in Antarctic seabirds: A species-specific attraction to krill odors

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 177, Issue , 1999, Pages 235-241

  Nevitt, Gabrielle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Foraging; Krill; Olfaction; Petrels; Procellariiform; Seabirds

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; OLFACTORY CUE; SEABIRD;

ANTARCTICA; ELEPHANT ISLAND; SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS;

AVES; CICONIIFORMES; DAPTION CAPENSE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DIOMEDEA MELANOPHRIS; DIOMEDEA MELANOPHRYS; ELEPHANT; EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA; EUPHAUSIACEA; FREGETTA TROPICA; FULMARUS GLACIALOIDES; HYDROBATINAE; MACRONECTES GIGANTEUS; OCEANITES OCEANICUS; PROCELLARIIDAE; PROCELLARIIFORMES;

EID: 0033545361     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps177235     Document Type: Article

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