Foraging strategies and prey encounter rate of free-ranging Little Penguins

Marine Biology

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 139-148

  Ropert Coudert, Yan ^a   Kato, Akiko ^a   Wilson, Rory P ^b   Cannell, Belinda ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PREY CAPTURE; SEABIRD;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

AVES; DIVES; EUDYPTULA MINOR; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 33646481933     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-005-0188-x     Document Type: Article

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