Geolocators reveal migration and pre-breeding behaviour of the critically endangered balearic shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Guilford, Tim ^a   Wynn, Russell ^b   McMinn, Miguel ^c   Rodríguez, Ana ^c   Fayet, Annette ^a   Maurice, Lou ^d   Jones, Alice ^b   Meier, Rhiannon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c Skua Gabinete de Estudios Ambientales Sociedad Limitada Profesional   (Spain)

^d BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BREEDING; EGG LAYING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EUROPE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; IMMERSION; LIGHT; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MIGRATION; NIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHENOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SEABIRD; SEASHORE; WINTER; ANIMAL; BIRD; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

AVES; PUFFINUS MAURETANICUS;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 84858662274     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033753     Document Type: Article

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