Exploitation of distant Antarctic waters and close neritic waters by short-tailed shearwaters breeding in South Australia

• Published in: Austral Ecology
• Main Authors: Einoder, L., Page, B., Goldsworthy, S., de Little, S., Bradshaw, C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Blackwell Science Asia 2011
• Subjects: Area-restricted search; first-passage time; foraging; habitat associations; neritic; scale; search effort; tracking; Antarctic; Bradshaw; Antarc*; Puffinus tenuirostris
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/68836; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-9993.2010.02176.x

Identifying the primary foraging grounds of abundant top predators is of importance in marine management to identify areas of high biological significance, and to assess the extent of competition with fisheries. We studied the search effort and habitat selection of the highly abundant short-tailed s...