Scale-dependent foraging ecology of a marine top predator modelled using passive acoustic data

Functional Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 206-217

  Pirotta, Enrico ^a   Thompson, Paul M ^a   Miller, Peter I ^b   Brookes, Kate L ^a,c   Cheney, Barbara ^a   Barton, Tim R ^a   Graham, Isla M ^a   Lusseau, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Echolocation; Feeding buzz; GEEs; Habitat preference; Modelling; Multi scale; PODs; Tursiops

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DATA; DOLPHIN; ECHOLOCATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEEDING ECOLOGY; HABITAT SELECTION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SCALE EFFECT; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

MORAY FIRTH; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84892859624     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12146     Document Type: Article

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