Can thermoclines be a cue to prey distribution for marine top predators? a case study with little penguins

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Pelletier, Laure ^a,b   Kato, Akiko ^a,b   Chiaradia, André ^c   Ropert Coudert, Yan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES SUBATOMIQUES   (France)

^c Research Department   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING; NONHUMAN; PENGUIN; PREY; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; THERMOCLINE; WATER TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL; AUSTRALIA; PREDATION; TEMPERATURE;

SEA WATER;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BREEDING; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEAWATER; SPHENISCIDAE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84859991538     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031768     Document Type: Article

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