Supplementary diet components of little auk chicks in two contrasting regions on the West Spitsbergen coast

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Boehnke, Rafał, Gluchowska, Marta, Wojczulanis-Jakubas, Katarzyna, Jakubas, Dariusz, Karnovsky, Nina J., Walkusz, Wojciech, Kwasniewski, Slawomir, Błachowiak-Samołyk, Katarzyna
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2014
• Subjects: Short Note; Arctic; Hornsund; Magdalenefjorden; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Alle alle; Calanus glacialis; little auk; Magdalenefjord*; Copepods; Spitsbergen; Thysanoessa inermis
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4459656/; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-014-1568-9

The complete diet composition structure of the most numerous planktivorous sea bird, little auk (Alle alle), in the European Arctic, is still not fully recognized. Although regular constituents of little auk chick diets, the copepods, Calanus glacialis and C. finmarchicus have been previously relati...