Optimal foraging in chick-raising Common Guillemots (Uria aalge)

Journal of Ornithology

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 253-259

  Bugge, Julie ^a   Barrett, Robert T ^a   Pedersen, Torstein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Common Guillemot; Food; Optimal foraging; Uria aalge

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; COLONY; DIET; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; POPULATION DECLINE; RED LIST; SEABIRD;

NORWAY;

ALCIDAE; AMMODYTES SP.; GADIDAE; GADUS MORHUA; MALLOTUS (FISH); MALLOTUS VILLOSUS; MELANOGRAMMUS; MELANOGRAMMUS AEGLEFINUS; URIA AALGE;

EID: 79952708080     PISSN: 21937192     EISSN: 21937206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10336-010-0578-9     Document Type: Article

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