Spatio-temporal responses of black-tailed gulls to natural and anthropogenic food resources

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 466, Issue , 2012, Pages 249-259

  Yoda, Ken ^a   Tomita, Naoki ^b,d   Mizutani, Yuichi ^a   Narita, Akira ^c   Niizuma, Yasuaki ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Aomori Prefectural School for the Deaf   (Japan)

^d YAMASHINA INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Data logger; GPS; Habitat use; Larus crassirostris; Movement; Seabirds; Video

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; DATA SET; FEEDING GROUND; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GPS; HABITAT USE; HATCHING; HETEROGENEITY; INCUBATION; MAPPING; MOVEMENT; SEABIRD; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION; VIDEOGRAPHY;

EID: 84867570610     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09939     Document Type: Article

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