Spatial ecology of long‐tailed ducks and white‐winged scoters wintering on Nantucket Shoals

• Published in: Ecosphere
• Main Authors: White, Timothy P., Veit, Richard R.
• Other Authors: Graduate Center
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2020
• Subjects: Nantucket; Melanitta fusca
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3002; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fecs2.3002; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ecs2.3002; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/ecs2.3002; https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ecs2.3002

Abstract We examine the long‐term co‐occurrence of long‐tailed ducks ( Clangula hyemalis ) and white‐winged scoters ( Melanitta fusca ) wintering at the Nantucket Shoals off Massachusetts, USA , and ask: (1) What oceanographic features attract these aggregations? (2) How are distributions of prey an...