Foraging in the Darkness of the Southern Ocean: Influence of Bioluminescence on a Deep Diving Predator

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Vacquié Garcia, Jade ^a   Royer, François ^b   Dragon, Anne Cécile ^a   Viviant, Morgane ^a   Bailleul, Frédéric ^a   Guinet, Christophe ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CLS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; BREEDING; DARKNESS; DIVING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LIGHT; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MIROUNGA LEONINA; NIGHT; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SEA; SEAL;

ACCELERATION; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DARKNESS; DIVING; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FISHES; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; MOVEMENT; OCEANS AND SEAS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEALS, EARLESS; TIME FACTORS;

MIROUNGA LEONINA; MYCTOPHIDAE;

EID: 84865579809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043565     Document Type: Article

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