Adélie Penguin Foraging Location Predicted by Tidal Regime Switching

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Oliver, Matthew J ^a   Irwin, Andrew ^b   Moline, Mark A ^a   Fraser, William ^c   Patterson, Donna ^c   Schofield, Oscar ^d   Kohut, Josh ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Polar Oceans Research Group   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HYDROGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; OCEAN CURRENT; PENGUIN; PREDICTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIDE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DIVING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; SEASONS; SPHENISCIDAE; TIDAL WAVES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84873802675     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055163     Document Type: Article

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