Animal-Borne Acoustic Transceivers Reveal Patterns of at-Sea Associations in an Upper-Trophic Level Predator

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Lidgard, Damian C ^a   Bowen, W Don ^b   Jonsen, Ian D ^a   Iverson, Sara J ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANADA; FEMALE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GREY SEAL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SEAL; TELEMETRY;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEALS, EARLESS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALIA; HALICHOERUS GRYPUS;

EID: 84869136350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048962     Document Type: Article

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