Time budgets and at-sea behaviour of lactating female Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus gazella at Bouvetoya

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 385, Issue , 2009, Pages 271-284

  Biuw, Martin ^a   Krafft, Bjorn A ^b   Hofmeyr, G J Greg ^c,d   Lydersen, Christian ^a   Kovacs, Kit M ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^d PORT ELIZABETH MUSEUM   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Diving; Foraging ecology; Krill predator; Otariids; Satellite tracking; Southern Ocean; TDRs

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; BREEDING POPULATION; DIURNAL VARIATION; DIVING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT USE; LACTATION; PINNIPED; PREY AVAILABILITY; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME ALLOCATION; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; TWILIGHT;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BOUVET ISLAND; BOUVETOYA;

ARCTOCEPHALUS GAZELLA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA; EUPHAUSIACEA; OTARIIDAE;

EID: 67650538969     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08025     Document Type: Article

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