Foraging behavior of incubating and chick-rearing thick-billed murres Uria lomvia

Aquatic Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 279-287

  Ito, Motohiro ^a   Takahashi, Akinori ^b   Kokubun, Nobuo ^b   Kitaysky, Alexander S ^c   Watanuki, Yutaka ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Brooding; Br nnich's guillemot; Diving behavior; Incubation; Thermocline

Indexed keywords

AVES; CEPHALOPODA; EUPHAUSIIDAE; LARIDAE; THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA; URIA LOMVIA;

EID: 77949616312     PISSN: 18647782     EISSN: 18647790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/ab00229     Document Type: Article

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