Evidence for sex-segregated ocean distributions of first-winter wandering albatrosses at Crozet islands.

The highly mobile wandering albatrosses (Diomedea exulans) are adapted to navigate the extreme environment of the Southern Ocean and return to isolated islands to breed. Each year they cover several hundreds of thousands of kilometers during travels across the sea. Little is known about the dispersa...

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Main Authors: Susanne Åkesson, Henri Weimerskirch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3937278?pdf=render