Diving behaviour of albatrosses: implications for foraging ecology and bycatch susceptibility

• Published in: Marine Biology
• Main Authors: Bentley, L. K., Kato, Akiko, Ropert‐coudert, Yan, Manica, A., Phillips, Richard A.
• Other Authors: Department of Zoology Cambridge, University of Cambridge UK (CAM), British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC), La Rochelle Université (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2021
• Subjects: [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Bird Island
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-03144206; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-021-03841-y

International audience Diving is an ecologically important behaviour that provides air-breathing predators with opportunities to capture prey, butthat also increases their exposure to incidental mortality (bycatch) in commercial fisheries. In this study, we characterisedthe diving behaviour of 26 in...