Diet of Black-browed Thalassarche melanophrys and Atlantic Yellow-nosed T. chlororhynchos Albatrosses and White-chinned Procellaria aequinoctialis and Spectacled P. conspicillata Petrels off southern Brazil

Marine Ornithology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 9-20

  Colabuono, Fernanda I ^a   Vooren, Carolus M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Albatrosses; Brazil; Cephalopods; Diet; Fish; Petrels; Procellariiformes

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOPOD; DIET; FISH; FOOD SELECTION; SEABIRD;

AVES; CEPHALOPODA; DIOMEDEA MELANOPHRIS; DIOMEDEIDAE; HISTIOTEUTHIDAE; PROCELLARIA AEQUINOCTIALIS; PROCELLARIIDAE; PROCELLARIIFORMES; THALASSARCHE CHLORORHYNCHOS;

EID: 43049150431     PISSN: 10183337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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