Thick-billed murres use different diving behaviors in mixed and stratified waters

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 16-17, 2008, Pages 1837-1845

  Takahashi, Akinori ^a,b   Matsumoto, Kei ^a   Hunt Jr , George L ^c   Shultz, Michael T ^d   Kitaysky, Alexander S ^d   Sato, Katsufumi ^e   Iida, Kohji ^a   Watanuki, Yutaka ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bering Sea St. George Island; Foraging behavior; Marine birds; Marine ecology; Predator prey interactions; Thermocline

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; ESTIMATION; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SALES; STREAM FLOW; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS;

BERING SEA; BERING SEA/ST. GEORGE ISLAND; CHARACTERISTICS OF WATER; DATA LOGGERS; DIVING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIORS; MARINE BIRDS; MARINE ECOLOGY; MIXED WATER; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTIONS; SAMPLING CONSTRAINTS; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATIFIED WATERS; THERMOCLINE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; WATER MASSES;

OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION;

DIVING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; SEABIRD; STRATIFICATION; THERMOCLINE; WATER MASS;

ALASKA; BERING SEA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIBILOF ISLANDS; SAINT GEORGE ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

AVES; LARIDAE; URIA LOMVIA;

EID: 52049115407     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.04.005     Document Type: Article

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