Habitat-Mediated Dive Behavior in Free-Ranging Grey Seals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Jessopp, Mark ^a   Cronin, Michelle ^a   Hart, Tom ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; DIVE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT USE; HALICOHOERUS GRYPUS; IRELAND; NONHUMAN; PELAGIC ZONE; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PROBABILITY; SEAL; SEDIMENT; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DIVING; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; IRELAND; SEALS, EARLESS;

EID: 84877116733     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063720     Document Type: Article

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