GPS and time-depth loggers reveal underwater foraging plasticity in a flying diver, the Cape Cormorant

Marine Biology

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 373-387

  Cook, Timothée R ^a   Hamann, Maike ^a   Pichegru, Lorien ^a   Bonadonna, Francesco ^b   Grémillet, David ^b   Ryan, Peter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; CONSERVATION; DIET; DIVING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GPS; HETEROGENEITY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREY CAPTURE; SEABIRD; SEAFLOOR; SURVIVAL; TRACKING; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENT; UPWELLING; WATER COLUMN; WATER DEPTH;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BENGUELA CURRENT; SOUTH AFRICA;

AVES; ENGRAULIDAE; ENGRAULIS; PHALACROCORAX CAPENSIS;

EID: 84856013423     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-011-1815-3     Document Type: Article

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