Unconventional ventral attachment of time-depth recorders as a new method for investigating time budget and diving behaviour of seabirds

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 206, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1929-1940

  Tremblay, Yann ^a   Cherel, Yves ^a   Oremus, Marc ^a   Tveraa, Torkild ^b   Chastel, Olivier ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Alcid; Barents Sea; Common guillemot; Foraging behaviour; Uria aalge

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIVING; ECOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEA; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; DATA COLLECTION; DIVING; ECOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; OCEANS AND SEAS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; LARIDAE; URIA; URIA AALGE;

EID: 0038460067     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.00363     Document Type: Article

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