Use of gannets to monitor prey availability in the northeast Atlantic Ocean: colony size, diet and foraging behaviour
Book Chapter
Hamer, K. C., Lewis, S., Wanless, S., Phillips, R. A., Sherratt, T. N., Humphreys, E. M., …Garthe, S. (2006)
Use of gannets to monitor prey availability in the northeast Atlantic Ocean: colony size, diet and foraging behaviour. In I. L. Boyd, S. Wanless, & C. J. Camphuysen (Eds.), Top Predators in Marine Ecosystems: Their Role in Monitoring and Management (236-248). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511541964.017
Large seabirds such as northern gannets Morus bassanus have very flexible time–activity budgets; this means that changes in variables such as foraging-trip duration could prov...