Foraging habitat choice of White-tailed Tropicbirds revealed by fine-scale GPS tracking and remote sensing.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The introduction of animal tracking technology has rapidly advanced our understanding of seabird foraging ecology. Tracking data is particularly powerful when combined with oceanographic information derived from satellite remote sensing, allowing insights into the functional mechanisms of marine ecosystems. While this framework has been used extensively over the last two decades, there are still vast ocean regions and many seabird species for which information is scarce, particularly in tropical oceans.

Methods

In this study we tracked the movement at high GPS recording frequency of 15 White-tailed Tropicbirds (Phaethon lepturus) during chick-rearing from a colony in Fernando de Noronha (offshore of Northeast Brazil). Flight behaviours of travelling and sea

SUBMITTER: Santos CD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6339477 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature