Influence of water flow velocity, water depth and colony distance on distribution and foraging patterns of terns in the Wadden Sea

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 161-172

  Schwemmer, Philipp ^a   Adler, Sven ^a,b   Guse, Nils ^a   Markones, Nele ^a   Garthe, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Foraging seabirds; North Sea; Physical biological coupling; Sterna; Water depth; Water flow velocity

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BREEDING SITE; COLONIZATION; FLOW VELOCITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IRIDIUM; PREY AVAILABILITY; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; WATER DEPTH; WATER FLOW;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA;

LARIDAE; STERNA; STERNA HIRUNDO; STERNA PARADISAEA;

EID: 65549150455     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2009.00504.x     Document Type: Article

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