Frigatebird behaviour at the ocean-atmosphere interface: Integrating animal behaviour with multi-satellite data

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 77, 2012, Pages 3351-3358

  De Monte, Silvia ^a,b,c   Cotté, Cedric ^a,d   D'Ovidio, Francesco ^d   Lévy, Marina ^d   Le Corre, Matthieu ^e   Weimerskirch, Henri ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

Author keywords

(sub )mesoscale; Frigatebirds; Habitat choice; Lagrangian structures; Marine top predators; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING;

FRIGATEBIRDS; HABITAT CHOICE; LAGRANGIAN STRUCTURES; MESOSCALE; TOP PREDATOR;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; DATA ANALYSIS; FLYING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; SEA; SEABIRD;

EID: 84868572063     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2012.0509     Document Type: Article

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