A View of the Ocean from Pacific Predators

Life in the World's Oceans: Diversity, Distribution, and Abundance

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 291-311

  Block, Barbara A ^a   Costa, Daniel P ^b   Bograd, Steven J ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archival tags log high resolution time series data from sensors measuring pressure, water temperature, body temperature, salinity and light level; Kernel density of loggerhead turtle habitat use in the North Pacific; Large pelagic species, in marine ecosystems of the North Pacific; Limitations to knowledge of marine top predators; Pacific predator tagging; Tag technologies for marine biologging; Top predator distributions and discovery of basin scale migrations; TOPP, newly developed sensor capabilities in animal tags new additions to in situ ocean observing networks; View of the ocean from Pacific predators; Workshop deliberations and early tagging experiments list of key animals, research subjects of TOPP

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149403377     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444325508.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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