Can dive cycle models predict patterns of foraging behaviour? Diving by common eiders in an Arctic polynya

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 877-884

  Heath, Joel P ^a   Gilchrist, H Grant ^b   Ydenberg, Ronald C ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

common eider; foraging theory; rate constraints; Somateria mollissima sedentaria; temporal scale

Indexed keywords

DIVING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MODEL; SEABIRD; TIME ALLOCATION; TRAVEL TIME;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA SEDENTARIA;

EID: 34247875897     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.10.015     Document Type: Article

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