Living on predictability: Modelling the density distribution of efficient foraging seabirds

Ecography

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 912-921

  Cama, Albert ^a,b   Abellana, Rosa ^a   Christel, Isadora ^a,b   Ferrer, Xavier ^a   Vieites, David R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL SURVEY; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DIEL VARIATION; FISHING VESSEL; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; ROOSTING; SCAVENGING (FEEDING); SEABIRD; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TRAWLING;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

AVES; LARUS MICHAHELLIS;

EID: 84866755876     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.06756.x     Document Type: Article

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