Preferred foraging areas of Heard Island albatrosses during chick raising and implications for the management of incidental mortality in fisheries

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 309-320

  Lawton, Kieran ^a,c   Kirkwood, Roger ^b   Robertson, Graham ^a   Raymond, Ben ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^b Phillip Island Nature Park   (Australia)

^c Aspect Ecology   (Australia)

Author keywords

Black browed albatrosses; Heard Island; Light mantled sooty albatrosses

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; FEEDING GROUND; FISHERY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT SELECTION; ISLAND; JUVENILE; MORTALITY; MORTALITY RISK; POPULATION DECLINE; SEABIRD;

HEARD ISLAND; HEARD ISLAND AND MCDONALD ISLANDS; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS;

DIOMEDEA MELANOPHRIS; DIOMEDEIDAE; PHOEBETRIA PALPEBRATA;

EID: 45749085792     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: 10990755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.857     Document Type: Article

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