Diet composition, continuity in prey availability and marine habitat - Keystones to population stability in the Snares Penguin (Eudyptes robustus)

Emu

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 204-213

  Mattern, Thomas ^a   Houston, David M ^b   Lalas, Chris ^c   Setiawan, Alvin N ^a   Davis, Lloyd S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

^c NONE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; DIET; FLIGHTLESSNESS; FOOD INTAKE; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREY AVAILABILITY; SEABIRD; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STABLE ISOTOPE;

CEPHALOPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUDYPTES; EUDYPTES CHRYSOCOME; EUDYPTES ROBUSTUS; EUPHAUSIACEA; NYCTIPHANES AUSTRALIS; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 70349204176     PISSN: 01584197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MU08001     Document Type: Article

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