Foraging trip time-activity budgets and reproductive success in the black-legged kittiwake

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 456, Issue , 2012, Pages 269-277

  Chivers, Lorraine S ^a   Lundy, Mathieu G ^b   Colhoun, Kendrew ^c   Newton, Stephen F ^d   Houghton, Jonathan D R ^a,b   Reid, Neil ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b School of Biological Sciences   (United Kingdom)

^c RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^d Kilcoole Co   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Breeding; Foraging effort; GPS data logger; Prey availability; Reproductive success; Temperature depth recorder

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GPS; PREY AVAILABILITY; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SATELLITE DATA; SEABIRD;

MOYLE; NORTHERN IRELAND; RATHLIN ISLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

AVES; LARUS; RISSA TRIDACTYLA;

EID: 84862236233     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09691     Document Type: Article

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