Short Note: Observations of top predators foraging on fish in the pack ice of the southern Ross Sea

Antarctic Science

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 439-440

  Lauriano, Giancarlo ^a   Vacchi, Marino ^b   Ainley, David ^c   Ballard, Grant ^d,e  

^a Central Institute for Marine Research ICRAM   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c H T HARVEY AND ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^d PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISH; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; ICE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PREDATOR;

ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 35848933692     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: 13652079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102007000508     Document Type: Article

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