Small-scale interactions between prions Pachyptila spp. and their zooplankton prey at an inshore site near Bird Island, South Georgia

• Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Main Authors: Goss, C, Bone, DG, Peck, JM, Everson, I, Hunt, GL, Murray, AWA
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 1997
• Subjects: seabirds; zooplankton; sampling; Antarctic marine inshore; predation; Oceanography; Ecology; Zoology; Marine Biology & Hydrobiology; Antarc*; Antarctic; Bird Island
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4v7325h1; https://escholarship.org/content/qt4v7325h1/qt4v7325h1.pdf; https://doi.org/10.3354/meps154041

We investigated the relationship between surface-foraging prions Pachyptila spp. and their zooplankton prey by comparing counts of foraging birds with near-surface concentrations of zooplankton from net samples. Zooplankton abundance was assessed by employing a new design of sampler that combined a...