Foraging behaviour of common murres in the Baltic Sea, recorded by simultaneous attachment of GPS and time-depth recorder devices

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 475, Issue , 2013, Pages 277-289

  Evans, Thomas J ^a   Kadin, Martina ^b   Olsson, Olof ^b   Åkesson, Susanne ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Baltic sea; Common murre; Data loggers; Diving behaviour; Foraging behaviour; Uria aalge; Wildlife telemetry

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; DIVING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GPS; SEA SURFACE; SEABIRD; WIND DIRECTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; GOTLAND; STORA KARLSO; SWEDEN;

EID: 84874093394     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10125     Document Type: Article

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