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Filtering by: Creator Peck, Myron A. Academic Affiliation Fisheries and Wildlife Has journal sim PLoS ONE

Prey Patch Patterns Predict Habitat Use by Top Marine Predators with Diverse Foraging Strategies

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Benoit-Bird, Kelly J., Battaile, Brian C., Heppell, Scott A., Hoover, Brian, Irons, David, Jones, Nathan, Kuletz, Kathy J., Nordstrom, Chad A., Paredes, Rosana, Suryan, Robert M., Waluk, Chad M., and Trites, Andrew W.

Abstract:

Spatial coherence between predators and prey has rarely been observed in pelagic marine ecosystems. We used measures of the environment, prey abundance, prey quality, and prey distribution to explain the observed distributions of three co-occurring predator species breeding on islands in the southeastern Bering Sea: black-legged kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla), thick-billed...

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, Scott A. Heppell2, Brian Hoover4, David Irons5, Nathan Jones4, Kathy J. Kuletz5, Chad A. Nordstrom3