Selectivity of flesh-footed shearwaters for plastic colour: Evidence for differential provisioning in adults and fledglings

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 113, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-6

  Lavers, Jennifer L ^a   Bond, Alexander L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Colour preference; Feeding; Plastics; Seabirds; Selection

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; FEEDING; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLASTICS;

ADDITIONAL DATUM; BEHAVIOUR; DIGESTIVE TRACT; LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; SEABIRDS; SELECTION; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

COLOR;

ADULT; COLOR; FEEDING; FLEDGING; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PLASTIC WASTE; POLLUTION EFFECT; SEABIRD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR; CHICK; FEMALE; FLEDGLING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; SEABIRD; SOUND; SPECIES; AGING; ANIMAL; CHARADRIIFORMES; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; STOMACH JUICE; WASTE; WATER POLLUTANT;

AUSTRALIA; KING GEORGE SOUND; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

PROCELLARIIDAE; RHODOCOCCUS RHODOCHROUS;

PLASTIC; WASTE; WATER POLLUTANT;

AGING; ANIMALS; CHARADRIIFORMES; COLOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; PLASTICS; WASTE PRODUCTS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84954230708     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: 18790291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2015.10.011     Document Type: Article

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