Foraging activity and submesoscale habitat use of waved albatrosses Phoebastria irrorata during chick-brooding period

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 291, Issue , 2005, Pages 289-300

  Awkerman, Jill A ^a   Fukuda, Akira ^b   Higuchi, Hiroyoshi ^c   Anderson, David J ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gal pagos Islands; Phoebastria irrorata; Seabird habitat

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT USE; SEABIRD; TRACKING;

ECUADOR; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CICONIIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS; PHOEBASTRIA IRRORATA;

EID: 19944415585     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps291289     Document Type: Article

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