Estimating food consumption of marine predators Antarctic fur seals and macaroni penguins

• Main Author: Boyd, Ian Lamont
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2002
• Subjects: bioenergetics; carbon budgets; marine mammal; predation; seabird; ARCTOCEPHALUS-PUSILLUS-PUSILLUS; EUPHAUSIA-SUPERBA DANA; SOUTH-GEORGIA; EUDYPTES-CHRYSOLOPHUS; BIRD-ISLAND; BIOCHEMICAL-COMPOSITION; ENERGY-REQUIREMENTS; FUTURE CONSUMPTION; TOP PREDATORS; CATCH RATES; Antarctic; Bird Island; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Antarctic Fur Seal; Antarctic Fur Seals; Arctocephalus gazella; Eudyptes chrysolophus; Euphausia superba; Macaroni penguin
• Online Access: https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/researchoutput/estimating-food-consumption-of-marine-predators-antarctic-fur-seals-and-macaroni-penguins(5edfbaa3-0972-4df9-82e2-716a35ffa4eb).html; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0036128038&partnerID=8YFLogxK

1. Estimating food consumption is central to defining the ecological role of marine predators. This study developed an algorithm for synthesizing information about physiology, metabolism, growth, diet, life history and the activity budgets of marine predators to estimate population energy requiremen...