Inter-colony comparison of diving behavior of an arctic top predator: Implications for warming in the greenland sea

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 440, Issue , 2011, Pages 229-240

  Karnovsky, Nina J ^a   Brown, Zachary W ^a,b   Welcker, Jorg ^c   Harding, Ann M A ^d   Walkusz, Wojciech ^e,f   Cavalcanti, Andre ^a   Hardin, Johanna ^a   Kitaysky, Alexander ^g   Gabrielsen, Geir ^c   Grémillet, David ^h,i  

^a POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^d ALASKA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

^f FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^h CNRS   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Alle alle; Calanus; Climate change; Current; Dovekie; East; Greenland; Little auk; S rkapp; Spitsbergen; Time depth recorder; West

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRUSTACEAN; DIVING BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OCEANIC CURRENT; PREDATOR; PREY SIZE; SEABIRD; SEAWATER; TIME ALLOCATION; WARM WATER; WARMING; WATER MASS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

ALLE; ALLE ALLE; AVES; CALANUS; COPEPODA; PINGUINUS;

EID: 80055085384     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09351     Document Type: Article

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