Horizontal-vertical movement relationships: Adélie penguins forage continuously throughout provisioning trips

• Published in: Movement Ecology
• Main Authors: Riaz, Javed, Bestley, Sophie, Wotherspoon, Simon, Emmerson, Louise
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: BioMed Central 2021
• Subjects: Research; Béchervaise Island; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8393751/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34446104; https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-021-00280-8

BACKGROUND: Diving marine predators forage in a three-dimensional environment, adjusting their horizontal and vertical movement behaviour in response to environmental conditions and the spatial distribution of prey. Expectations regarding horizontal-vertical movements are derived from optimal foragi...