Annual energy budget and food requirements of breeding wandering albatrosses (Diomedea exulans)

• Main Author: Shaffer, Scott A
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2004
• Subjects: Crozet; energy budgets; energetics; food consumption; wandering albatross; Possession Island; Diomedea exulans; Marion Island; Polar Biology; Wandering Albatross
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/3tw1x09f

Energy budgets form an integral part of our understanding of animal energetics, particularly when presented in the context of reproduction. In this paper, I created a time-energy budget for a breeding pair of wandering albatrosses (Diomedea exulans) to estimate the annual breeding costs and food req...