Seasonal changes in the diet and feeding behaviour of a top predator indicate a flexible response to deteriorating oceanographic conditions

• Published in: Marine Biology
• Main Authors: Xavier, J.C., Louzao, Maite, Thorpe, S. E., Ward, P., Hill, C., Roberts, D., Croxall, John P., Phillips, Richard A.
• Other Authors: British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Institute of Marine Research, University of Coimbra Portugal (UC), Centre d'études biologiques de Chizé (CEBC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung = Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2013
• Subjects: envir; geo; Antarctic; Austral; Bird Island; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; Euphausia superba
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-013-2212-x; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00831538

International audience Shifts in the diet of top predators can be linked to changes in environmental conditions. In this study, we tested relationships between environmental variation and seasonal changes in diet of a top predator, the grey-headed albatross Thalassarche chrysostoma, breeding at Bird...