Flexible foraging tactics by a large opportunistic seabird preying on forage-and large pelagic fishes

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 385, Issue , 2009, Pages 295-306

  Montevecchi, W A ^a   Benvenuti, S ^b   Garthe, S ^c   Davoren, G K ^d   Fifield, D ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atlantic salmon; Capelin; Diets; Ecosystem; Forage fishes; Foraging tactics; Gannet; Seabirds

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PELAGIC FISH; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; SALMONID; SEABIRD; SMOLT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

AVES; MALLOTUS (FISH); MALLOTUS VILLOSUS; MORUS BASSANUS; PISCES; SALMO SALAR; SULIDAE;

EID: 67650535869     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08006     Document Type: Article

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