Foraging Strategy of a diving marine predator during the breeding season: the macaroni penguin on Crozet and Kerguelen islands.

• Main Author: Bon, Cécile
• Other Authors: Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC), Université de La Rochelle (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Université de La Rochelle, BOST Charles-André ([e-mail])
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2016
• Subjects: southern ocean; penguins; breeding cycle; oceanographic features; foraging strategies; ecology; cycle de reproduction; manchots; océan austral; écologie comportementale; stratégies d’approvisionnement; habitats; [SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology; environment; [SDV.BA.ZV]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Vertebrate Zoology; Austral; Austral Ocean; Kerguelen; Kerguelen Islands; Manchots; Southern Ocean; Crozet Islands; Macaroni penguin; Marion Island
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01380737; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01380737/document; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01380737/file/Bon_Cecile.pdf

The Austral Ocean still hosts a great population of marine predators (i.e. penguins, albatross, and seals). Despite well studied, the functional approach investigating the relationship between prey and predators in the marine ecosystem is still poorly known. Knowledge on habitat selection and use of...