Going deep: Common murres dive into frigid water for aggregated, persistent and slow-moving capelin

Marine Biology

Volumn 156, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 741-751

  Hedd, April ^a   Regular, P M ^a   Montevecchi, W A ^a   Buren, A D ^a   Burke, C M ^a   Fifield, D A ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIVING BEHAVIOR; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PROVISIONING; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; MIGRATION; PERSISTENCE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY CAPTURE; SEABIRD; TELEOST; TRADE-OFF; WATER COLUMN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

AVES; LARIDAE; MALLOTUS (FISH); MALLOTUS VILLOSUS; URIA AALGE;

EID: 60449087250     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-008-1125-6     Document Type: Article

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