Using a video camcorder to quantify spatial association between seabirds and their prey

Marine Ornithology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 145-151

  Veit, Richard R ^a   Santora, Jarrod A ^a   Owen, Harold ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Raytheon Polar Services Company   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic plankton sampling; Antarctica; Foraging behavior; Seabird prey interactions; Video camcorder

Indexed keywords

ECHO SOUNDER; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PLANKTON; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SEABIRD; VIDEOGRAPHY;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTICA;

AVES; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DIOMEDEIDAE; EUPHAUSIACEA; PROCELLARIIDAE; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 58549112065     PISSN: 10183337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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