Murre foraging, epibenthic sound scattering and tidal advection over a shoal near St. George Island, Bering Sea

Uria aalge and U. lomvia were concentrating over a dense epibenthic sound-scattering layer near the ridge crest on southward ebb tide currents. Samples taken through the layer contained high numbers of euphausiids (Thysanoessa inermis and T. raschii). Stomachs of murres collected in the area contain...

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Published in:Marine Ecology Progress Series
Main Authors: Coyle, KO, Hunt, GL, Decker, MB, Weingartner, TJ
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: eScholarship, University of California 1992
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Online Access:https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5tf4s4kn
https://escholarship.org/content/qt5tf4s4kn/qt5tf4s4kn.pdf
https://doi.org/10.3354/meps083001
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Summary:Uria aalge and U. lomvia were concentrating over a dense epibenthic sound-scattering layer near the ridge crest on southward ebb tide currents. Samples taken through the layer contained high numbers of euphausiids (Thysanoessa inermis and T. raschii). Stomachs of murres collected in the area contained predominantly euphausiids. -from Authors