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Bringing Home the Trash: Do Colony-Based Differences in Foraging Distribution Lead to Increased Plastic Ingestion in Laysan Albatrosses?

When searching for prey, animals should maximize energetic gain, while minimizing energy expenditure by altering their movements relative to prey availability. However, with increasing amounts of marine debris, what once may have been ‘optimal’ foraging strategies for top marine predators, are leadi...

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Autores principales: Young, Lindsay C., Vanderlip, Cynthia, Duffy, David C., Afanasyev, Vsevolod, Shaffer, Scott A.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2762601/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19862322
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0007623