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Vultures of the Seas: Hyperacidic Stomachs in Wandering Albatrosses as an Adaptation to Dispersed Food Resources, including Fishery Wastes

Animals are primarily limited by their capacity to acquire food, yet digestive performance also conditions energy acquisition, and ultimately fitness. Optimal foraging theory predicts that organisms feeding on patchy resources should maximize their food loads within each patch, and should digest the...

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Autores principales: Grémillet, David, Prudor, Aurélien, le Maho, Yvon, Weimerskirch, Henri
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3368928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22701581
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0037834