Spring phenology shapes the spatial foraging behavior of Antarctic petrels

• Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Main Authors: Fauchald, Per, Tarroux, Arnaud, Tveraa, Torkild, Cherel, Yves, Ropert-Coudert, Yan, Kato, Akiko, Love, Oliver P., Varpe, Øystein, Descamps, Sébastien
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship at UWindsor 2017
• Subjects: Biology; Life Sciences; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Gam; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; Antarctic Petrel; Antarctica; Euphausia superba; Sea ice; Thalassoica antarctica
• Online Access: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/biologypub/873; https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12082; https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/context/biologypub/article/1873/viewcontent/Fauchald_et_al.___2017___Spring_phenology_shapes_the_spatial_foraging_behav.pdf

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