Convergence or divergence: Where do short-tailed shearwaters forage in the Southern Ocean?

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 324, Issue , 2006, Pages 261-270

  Woehler, Eric J ^a,b   Raymond, Ben ^b   Watts, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Foraging; Oceanographic features; Prey predictability; Puffinus tenuirostris; Short tailed shearwater; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; OCEANOGRAPHIC FEATURE; SEABIRD;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTH);

PROCELLARIIDAE; PUFFINUS TENUIROSTRIS;

EID: 33845235057     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps324261     Document Type: Article

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