Testing olfactory foraging strategies in an Antarctic seabird assemblage

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 207, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 3537-3544

  Nevitt, Gabrielle ^a   Reid, Keith ^b   Trathan, Phil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Albatross; Odour cue; Olfaction; Petrel; Procellariiform seabird; Pyrazine; Shearwater; Smell

Indexed keywords

FISH OIL; PYRAZINE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BIRD; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EUPHAUSIACEA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BIRDS; CUES; EUPHAUSIACEA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH OILS; PYRAZINES; SMELL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AVES; CICONIIFORMES; CLUPEA HARENGUS; DAPTION CAPENSE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DIOMEDEA; DIOMEDEA MELANOPHRIS; EUPHAUSIA; EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA; EUPHAUSIACEA; FREGETTA; FREGETTA TROPICA; MACRONECTES; OCEANITES; OCEANITES OCEANICUS; PACHYPTILA; PROCELLARIA; PROCELLARIA AEQUINOCTIALIS; PROCELLARIIFORMES; PUFFINUS; PUFFINUS GRAVIS;

EID: 6344292289     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01198     Document Type: Article

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