Pelagic seabird flight patterns are consistent with a reliance on olfactory maps for oceanic navigation

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1811, 2015, Pages

  Reynolds, Andrew M ^a   Cecere, Jacopo G ^b,c   Paiva, Vitor H ^d   Ramos, Jaime A ^d   Focardi, Stefano ^e  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b JQ   (Italy)

^c LIPU   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^e ISC CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

L vy flights; Movement ecology; Oceanic navigation; Olfactory maps; Scale invariance

Indexed keywords

FLIGHT ACTIVITY; GPS; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MAP; MOVEMENT; NAVIGATION; OLFACTORY CUE; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; SEABIRD; SPATIAL COGNITION; WILD POPULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

AVES; CALONECTRIS; CALONECTRIS DIOMEDEA; PROCELLARIIDAE; PROCELLARIIFORMES;

FRAGRANCE;

ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIRD; FLYING; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIRDS; CUES; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; ODORANTS; SMELL;

EID: 84936862200     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0468     Document Type: Article

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