Inter-annual changes in diet and foraging trip lengths in a small pelagic seabird, the thin-billed prion Pachyptila belcheri

Marine Biology

Volumn 157, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2043-2050

  Quillfeldt, Petra ^a   Michalik, Andreas ^a,b   Veit Köhler, Gritta ^c   Strange, Ian J ^d   Masello, Juan F ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^c SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^d New Island Conservation Trust   (Falkland Islands (Malvinas))

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BODY CONDITION; BREEDING SEASON; CENTRAL PLACE FORAGING; CEPHALOPOD; CRUSTACEAN; DIET; GROWTH RATE; INCUBATION; PATCHINESS; PREY AVAILABILITY; SEA SURFACE; SEABIRD; TROPHIC LEVEL; WATER TEMPERATURE;

AMPHIPODA; CEPHALOPODA; COPEPODA; EUPHAUSIIDAE; PACHYPTILA BELCHERI; PROCELLARIIDAE;

EID: 77955770741     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-010-1472-y     Document Type: Article

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