Larger foraging range but similar habitat selection in non-breeding versus breeding sub-Antarctic penguins

Antarctic Science

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 117-126

  Thiebot, Jean Baptiste ^a   Lescroël, Amélie ^a   Pinaud, David ^a   Trathan, Philip N ^b   Bost, Charles André ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

central place foragers; ecological niche; Iles Kerguelen; juvenile; winter

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ORGANISM; BREEDING SITE; CENTRAL PLACE FORAGING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; JUVENILE; MOVEMENT; NICHE; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RANGE EXPANSION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEABIRD; SHELF BREAK; SUBANTARCTIC REGION;

FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES; KERGUELEN ISLANDS;

ANIMALIA; EUDYPTES CHRYSOLOPHUS; PYGOSCELIS PAPUA; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 79960349509     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: 13652079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102010000957     Document Type: Article

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