Underwater and above-water search patterns of an Arctic seabird: Reduced searching at small spatiotemporal scales

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1773-1785

  Elliott, Kyle Hamish ^a   Bull, Roger D ^b,c   Gaston, Anthony J ^b   Davoren, Gail K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ecological scale; Information Center Hypothesis; L vy search pattern; Predator prey interactions; Thick billed murre; Uria lomvia

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; DIET; ECOLOGICAL ZONATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INVERTEBRATE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SEABIRD; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CANADA; COATS ISLAND; NUNAVUT;

AVES; INVERTEBRATA; URIA LOMVIA;

EID: 77949624208     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-009-0801-y     Document Type: Article

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