Modeling profitability for the smallest marine endotherms: Auklets foraging within pelagic prey patches

Aquatic Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 203-219

  Lovvorn, James R ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcidae; Body size scaling; Dive loggers; Diving birds; Energetics models; Krill predators; Visual foraging

Indexed keywords

AETHIA; AETHIA PUSILLA; ALCIDAE; AVES; CETACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUPHAUSIACEA; PTYCHORAMPHUS ALEUTICUS;

EID: 77949596767     PISSN: 18647782     EISSN: 18647790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/ab00210     Document Type: Article

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