The effects of spatially heterogeneous prey distributions on detection patterns in foraging seabirds

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Miramontes, Octavio ^a,b   Boyer, Denis ^a   Bartumeus, Frederic ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIOMEDEA EXULANS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREDATOR DISPLACEMENT; PREDICTION; PREY; PREY DETECTION; PREY FIELD; SEABIRD; SPATIAL PREY DISTRIBUTION; URIA LOMVIA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIRD; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION;

ANIMALIA; DIOMEDEA EXULANS; URIA LOMVIA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84859707051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034317     Document Type: Article

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