Foraging in Guanay cormorant and Peruvian booby, the major guano-producing seabirds in the Humboldt Current System

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 458, Issue , 2012, Pages 231-245

  Weimerskirch, Henri ^a   Bertrand, Sophie ^b,c   Silva, Jaime ^c   Bost, Charly ^a   Peraltilla, Salvador ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Peru)

^c INSTITUTO DEL MAR DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

Author keywords

Peruvian anchovy; Phalacrocorax bougainvillii; Sula variegata; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLUPEOID; DIET; FEEDING GROUND; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GPS; MOVEMENT; PREY CAPTURE; SEABIRD; TELEMETRY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; UPWELLING;

HUMBOLDT CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

AVES; ENGRAULIDAE; ENGRAULIS RINGENS; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PHALACROCORAX BOUGAINVILLII; SULA VARIEGATA; SULIDAE;

EID: 84863561741     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09752     Document Type: Article

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