Top marine predators track Lagrangian coherent structures

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 8245-8250

  Kai, Emilie Tew ^a   Rossi, Vincent ^b   Sudre, Joel ^b   Weimerskirch, Henri ^b   Lopez, Cristobal ^c   Hernandez Garcia, Emilio ^c   Marsac, Francis ^a   Garçon, Veronique ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Finite size Lyapunov exponent; Frigatebird; Mozambique channel; Submesoscale

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; FORAGING; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SPECIES; MOZAMBIQUE; NONHUMAN; OCEAN CURRENT; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MARINE BIOLOGY; MOZAMBIQUE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; TUNA;

AVES; CETACEA; FREGATA MINOR; FREGATIDAE; SCOMBRIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 66249134273     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0811034106     Document Type: Article

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