Looking at the unseen: Combining animal bio-logging and stable isotopes to reveal a shift in the ecological niche of a deep diving predator

Ecography

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 709-719

  Bailleul, Frédéric ^a,b   Authier, Matthieu ^a   Ducatez, Simon ^a   Roquet, Fabien ^c   Charrassin, Jean Benoît ^c   Cherel, Yves ^a   Guinet, Christophe ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b MAURICE LAMONTAGNE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; BREEDING POPULATION; DIET; DIVING BEHAVIOR; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MOVEMENT; NICHE PARTITIONING; ONTOGENY; PINNIPED; POLAR FRONT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDATOR; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; STABLE ISOTOPE; TROPHIC LEVEL;

INDIAN OCEAN; KERGUELEN PLATEAU; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

ANIMALIA; MIROUNGA; MIROUNGA LEONINA;

EID: 77955931529     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2009.06034.x     Document Type: Article

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