Prey Patch Patterns Predict Habitat Use by Top Marine Predators with Diverse Foraging Strategies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Benoit Bird, Kelly J ^a   Battaile, Brian C ^b   Heppell, Scott A ^a   Hoover, Brian ^c   Irons, David ^d   Jones, Nathan ^c   Kuletz, Kathy J ^d   Nordstrom, Chad A ^b   Paredes, Rosana ^a   Suryan, Robert M ^a   Waluk, Chad M ^a   Trites, Andrew W ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c MOSS LANDING MARINE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; BIRD; BREEDING METHOD; CALLORHINUS URSINUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD QUALITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT PATCHINESS; HABITAT USE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMS BY GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISSA TRIDACTYLA; SEAL; URIA LOMVIA;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; CHARADRIIFORMES; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; FUR SEALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEASONS;

ANIMALIA; CALLORHINUS; CALLORHINUS URSINUS; LARIDAE; LARUS; RISSA TRIDACTYLA; URIA LOMVIA;

EID: 84871876441     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053348     Document Type: Article

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