Swim speeds of free-ranging great cormorants

Marine Biology

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 415-422

  Ropert Coudert, Yan ^a   Grémillet, David ^b   Kato, Akiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES SUBATOMIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIRD; COASTAL ZONE; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR; WATER COLUMN;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

AVES; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PHALACROCORAX CARBO;

EID: 33745211043     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-005-0242-8     Document Type: Article

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