Crepuscular foraging by a pursuit-diving seabird: Tactics of common murres in response to the diel vertical migration of capelin

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 415, Issue , 2010, Pages 295-304

  Regular, P M ^a   Davoren, G K ^b   Hedd, A ^a   Montevecchi, W A ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capelin; Common murre; Crepuscular foraging; Diel vertical migration; Diving behaviour; DVM; Mallotus villosus; Prey distribution; Uria aalge

Indexed keywords

DIEL MIGRATION; DIVING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; SEABIRD; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TELEOST; TRADE-OFF; TROPHIC LEVEL; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND SHELF;

LARIDAE; MALLOTUS (FISH); MALLOTUS VILLOSUS; URIA AALGE;

EID: 77958035748     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08752     Document Type: Article

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