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, D.G., Peck, J.M., Everson, I., Hunt, G.L., Murray, A.W.A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Inter-Research 1997
• Subjects: Bird Island; Stewart Strait
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/514472/; 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...