Foraging black-browed albatrosses target waters overlaying moraine banks - A consequence of upward benthic-pelagic coupling?

Antarctic Science

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 269-280

  Wakefield, Ewan D ^a,b   Phillips, Richard A ^a   Belchier, Mark ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antarctic krill; individual movement; seabird bycatch; stomach temperature loggers; sub mesoscale habitat use; Thalassarche melanophris

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BENTHIC-PELAGIC COUPLING; BYCATCH; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GPS; HABITAT TYPE; HABITAT USE; MORAINE; MOVEMENT; PREY AVAILABILITY; REMOTE SENSING; SEA SURFACE; SEABIRD; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TRAWLING; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GEORGIA SHELF; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

AVES; DIOMEDEA MELANOPHRIS; DIOMEDEIDAE; EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA; EUPHAUSIACEA;

EID: 84861841504     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: 13652079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102012000132     Document Type: Article

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