Where do penguins go during the inter-breeding period? Using geolocation to track the winter dispersion of the macaroni penguin

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 473-476

  Bost, C A ^a   Thiebot, J B ^a   Pinaud, D ^a   Cherel, Y ^a   Trathan, P N ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bio logging; Foraging; Penguins; Southern ocean; Stable isotopes; Wintering

Indexed keywords

STABLE ISOTOPE;

BLOOD; CRUSTACEAN; DISPERSION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MOVEMENT; POPULATION DECLINE; SEABIRD; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSUMER; CRUSTACEA; DISPERSION; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INDIAN OCEAN; LATITUDE; LOGGING; MACARONI PENGUIN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PENGUIN; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEABIRD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSOR; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WINTER;

FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; KERGUELEN; KERGUELEN ISLANDS; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

CRUSTACEA; EUDYPTES CHRYSOLOPHUS; EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA; EUPHAUSIACEA; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 67749110036     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0265     Document Type: Article

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