Foraging behaviour of four albatross species by night and day

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 340, Issue , 2007, Pages 271-286

  Phalan, Ben ^a,e   Phillips, Richard A ^a   Silk, Janet R D ^a   Afanasyev, Vsevolod ^a   Fukuda, Akira ^b   Fox, James ^a   Catry, Paulo ^a,c   Higuchi, Hiroyoshi ^d   Croxall, John P ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activity patterns; Bird Island; Diel cycle; Lunar rhythm; Procellariiformes; Seabird; South Georgia

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIURNAL ACTIVITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GPS; SEABIRD; SYMPATRY;

ANTARCTICA; BIRD ISLAND [SOUTH GEORGIA]; SOUTH GEORGIA;

AVES; CEPHALOPODA; DIOMEDEA CHRYSOSTOMA; DIOMEDEA EXULANS; DIOMEDEIDAE; PHOEBETRIA PALPEBRATA; PROCELLARIIFORMES;

EID: 34547221637     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps340271     Document Type: Article

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