Interactions between rate processes with different timescales explain counterintuitive foraging patterns of arctic wintering eiders

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1697, 2010, Pages 3179-3186

  Heath, Joel P ^a,c   Gilchrist, H Grant ^b   Ydenberg, Ronald C ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic ecology; Digestion; Diving; Foraging; Scale; Time series

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BENTHOS; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FITNESS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; SEA ICE; SEABIRD; TIDAL CYCLE; TIMESCALE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 77956936489     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0812     Document Type: Conference Paper

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