Predicting cetacean habitats from their energetic needs and the distribution of their prey in two contrasted tropical regions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Lambert, Charlotte ^a   Mannocci, Laura ^b   Lehodey, Patrick ^c   Ridoux, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CLS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEAKED WHALE; BIOMASS; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CETACEA; DELPHININAE; DIVING; ENERGY; FORAGE; FRENCH POLYNESIA; GLOBICEPHALINAE; HABITAT; HABITAT SELECTION; INDIAN OCEAN; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDICTION; PREY; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPERM WHALE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TROPICS; WHALE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; ECHOLOCATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT WHALE; POLYNESIA; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREDATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CETACEA; ECHOLOCATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; INDIAN OCEAN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POLYNESIA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERM WHALE; WHALES; WHALES, PILOT;

EID: 84930815742     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105958     Document Type: Article

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