Movements of foraging king penguins through marine mesoscale eddies

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1624, 2007, Pages 2385-2391

  Cotté, Cédric ^a   Park, Young Hyang ^b   Guinet, Christophe ^a   Bost, Charles André ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Aceanographic features; Foraging; Fronts; King penguin; Marine currents; Mesoscale eddies

Indexed keywords

FEEDING GROUND; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MESOSCALE EDDY; OCEANIC CURRENT; POLAR FRONT; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEABIRD; SWIMMING;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; PENGUIN; PREDATOR; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTE SENSING; SEA; SWIMMING;

APTENODYTES PATAGONICUS; AVES; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 34548734183     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0775     Document Type: Article

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