Vultures of the seas: Hyperacidic stomachs in wandering albatrosses as an adaptation to dispersed food resources, including fishery wastes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Grémillet, David ^a,b   Prudor, Aurélien ^c   le Maho, Yvon ^d   Weimerskirch, Henri ^c  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c CENTRE D ETUDES BIOLOGIQUES DE CHIZÉ   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BIRD; DIGESTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISHERY; FOOD INTAKE; FORAGING; GEOGRAPHY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SEA; SEABIRD; STOMACH ACID; STOMACH PH; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WANDERING ALBATROSS; WASTE WATER; ANIMAL; AVIAN STOMACH; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHEMISTRY; DIET; DIGESTIVE FUNCTION; FOOD INDUSTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; INDIAN OCEAN; METHODOLOGY; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLUTION; STOMACH JUICE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIRDS; BODY TEMPERATURE; DIET; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FISHERIES; GASTRIC JUICE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; STOMACH, AVIAN; WASTE PRODUCTS;

EID: 84862001728     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037834     Document Type: Article

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