Predator-borne acoustic transceivers and GPS tracking reveal spatiotemporal patterns of encounters with acoustically tagged fish in the open ocean

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 501, Issue , 2014, Pages 157-168

  Lidgard, D C ^a   Bowen, W D ^b   Jonsen, I D ^a   Iverson, S J ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eastern Scotian Shelf; Grey seal; Halichoerus grypus; Interspecies interactions; Predator prey interaction; Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898648530     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10670     Document Type: Article

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