Free as a bird? Activity patterns of albatrosses during the nonbreeding period

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 406, Issue , 2010, Pages 291-303

  Mackley, Elizabeth K ^a,b   Phillips, Richard A ^a   Silk, Janet R D ^a   Wakefield, Ewan D ^a   Afanasyev, Vsevolod ^a   Fox, James W ^a   Furness, Robert W ^b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Central place constraints; Commuting; Procellariiform; Seabird

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BREEDING SEASON; CENTRAL PLACE FORAGING; DISPERSAL; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PREY AVAILABILITY; SEABIRD; SPECIALIZATION;

ANTARCTICA; SOUTH GEORGIA;

AVES; DIOMEDEA EXULANS; DIOMEDEA MELANOPHRIS; DIOMEDEIDAE; PHOEBETRIA PALPEBRATA; PROCELLARIIFORMES;

EID: 77954101358     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08532     Document Type: Article

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