The relationship among oceanography, prey fields, and beaked whale foraging habitat in the tongue of the ocean

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Hazen, Elliott L ^a,b,c   Nowacek, Douglas P ^a,d   Laurent St, Louis ^e   Halpin, Patrick N ^a   Moretti, David J ^f  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association   (United States)

^d Duke University   (United States)

^e WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^f NAVAL UNDERSEA WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BAHAMAS; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MAMMAL; MESOPLODON DENSIROSTRIS; NONHUMAN; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; OCEANOGRAPHY; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES HABITAT; VOCALIZATION; WHALE; ZIPHIUS CAVIROSTRIS; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; MAMMALIA; MESOPLODON DENSIROSTRIS; TRIFOLIUM; ZIPHIIDAE; ZIPHIUS CAVIROSTRIS;

ANIMALS; BAHAMAS; ECOSYSTEM; OCEANOGRAPHY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; WHALES;

EID: 79955682895     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019269     Document Type: Article

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