Olfactory foraging in temperate waters: sensitivity to dimethylsulfide of shearwaters in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea

• Published in: Journal of Experimental Biology
• Main Authors: Dell'Ariccia, Gaia, Aurélie, Celerier, Gabirot, Marianne, Palmas, Pauline, Massa, Bruno, Bonadonna, Francesco
• Other Authors: Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD France-Sud )-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Università degli studi di Palermo - University of Palermo, G.D.A. was funded by the Fyssen Foundation (Fellowship 2010) and by a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship PIEF-GA-2010-272282-SOMA . The Mediterranean fieldwork of this research was possible thanks to a collaborative project between the CEFE-CNRS and the University of Palermo financed by a Journal of Experimental Biology Travelling Fellowship awarded to G.D.A. (Award 2010). M.G. was supported by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche Française AMBO ANR-08-BLAN-0117-01 ., ANR-08-BLAN-0117,AMBO,Attractiveness of mates based on odours: the case of petrel seabirds(2008)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2014
• Subjects: DMS; Foraging; Odour cues; Olfaction; Petrels; Procellariiform seabirds; [SDV.BA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology; Antarctic; The ''Y''; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-04213651; https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.097931

International audience Many procellariiforms use olfactory cues to locate food patches over the seemingly featureless ocean surface. In particular, some of them are able to detect and are attracted by dimethylsulphide (DMS), a volatile compound naturally occurring over worldwide oceans in correspond...