Olfactory foraging by antarctic procellariiform seabirds: Life at high Reynolds numbers

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 198, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 245-253

  Nevitt, Gabrielle A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; OLFACTION; PREY LOCATION; SEABIRD;

ANTARCTICA; SOUTH GEORGIA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; EUPHAUSIACEA; PROCELLARIIFORMES;

EID: 0034008462     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1542527     Document Type: Article

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