Role of feeding strategies in seabird-minke whale associations

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 424, Issue , 2011, Pages 219-227

  Anderwald, Pia ^a,b,c   Evans, Peter G H ^a   Gygax, Lorenz ^d   Hoelzel, A Rus ^b  

^a Wellington Place   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^d Agroscope Research Station ART   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Balaenoptera acutorostrata; Foraging theory; Species interaction

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; ANTIPARASITE DEFENSE; FEEDING MECHANISM; FISH; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; GROUP SIZE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LOGISTICS; PINNIPED; SEABIRD; TAXONOMY; WHALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

AVES; BALAENOPTERA; BALAENOPTERA ACUTOROSTRATA; CETACEA; PINGUINUS; PINNIPEDIA;

EID: 79952174548     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08947     Document Type: Article

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