Shearwater foraging in the Southern Ocean: The roles of prey availability and winds

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Raymond, Ben ^a   Shaffer, Scott A ^b   Sokolov, Serguei ^c   Woehler, Eric J ^d   Costa, Daniel P ^e   Einoder, Luke ^a   Hindell, Mark ^d   Hosie, Graham ^a   Pinkerton, Matt ^f   Sagar, Paul M ^f   Scott, Darren ^g   Smith, Adam ^h   Thompson, David R ^f   Vertigan, Caitlin ^d   Weimerskirch, Henri ⁱ  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^h MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

ⁱ CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTARCTICA; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPEPOD; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORAGING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; OCEANOGRAPHY; PELAGIC SPECIES; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SEA; SEABIRD; SEAWATER UPWELLING; SHEARWATER; SPECIES RICHNESS; WIND;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; ECOLOGY; MARINE BIOLOGY; OCEANS AND SEAS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; WIND;

AVES; COPEPODA; MYCTOPHIDAE; PROCELLARIIDAE; PUFFINUS GRISEUS;

EID: 77956194647     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010960     Document Type: Article

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