Sex-specific foraging strategies throughout the breeding season in a tropical, sexually monomorphic small petrel

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 979-989

  Pinet, Patrick ^a   Jaquemet, Sébastien ^a   Phillips, Richard A ^b   Le Corre, Matthieu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barau's petrel; Foraging strategy; Geolocator; Indian Ocean; Pterodroma baraui; Seabird; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BREEDING SEASON; CHLOROPHYLL; COLONY STRUCTURE; DOMINANCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT TYPE; INCUBATION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; SEABIRD; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; TELEMETRY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

INDIAN OCEAN;

PROCELLARIIFORMES; PTERODROMA BARAUI;

EID: 84858747356     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.01.019     Document Type: Article

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