Bringing home the trash: Do colony-based differences in foraging distribution lead to increased plastic ingestion in Laysan albatrosses?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Young, Lindsay C ^a   Vanderlip, Cynthia ^b   Duffy, David C ^a   Afanasyev, Vsevolod ^c   Shaffer, Scott A ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources   (United States)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASTIC;

ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; PHOBASTRIA IMMUTABILIS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEABIRD; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; WASTE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIRD; FLYING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; NESTING; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLUTANT; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ANIMALIA; DIOMEDEA IMMUTABILIS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PACIFIC OCEAN; PLASTICS; REFUSE DISPOSAL;

EID: 70449595656     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007623     Document Type: Article

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