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,...

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Main Authors: Lindsay C Young, Cynthia Vanderlip, David C Duffy, Vsevolod Afanasyev, Scott A Shaffer
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/810d25e317c64a9586488e4d5fc2f3f0
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