AB Theme Section 5 is based on presentations from the latest conference of the Pacific Seabird Group, which was held in February 2009 in Hakodate, Japan. The conference included a symposium on the use of devices attached to birds, for the purpose of studying underwater foraging behavior. The contributions to AB Theme Section 5 focus on the energetics of diving and foraging, and on the methods for assessing the physiology of birds under water.
Wilson RP, Watanuki Y, Miyazaki N, Stewart BS
Working beneath the surface: interplay of biomechanics, physiology and behavioural ecology in diving seabirds
AB 8:191-192 | Full text in pdf format
Wilson RP, Shepard ELC, Gómez Laich A, Frere E, Quintana F
Pedalling downhill and freewheeling up; a penguin perspective on foraging
AB 8:193-202 | Full text in pdf format
Lovvorn JR
Modeling profitability for the smallest marine endotherms: auklets foraging within pelagic prey patches
AB 8:203-219 | Full text in pdf format
Elliott KH, Shoji A, Campbell KL, Gaston AJ
Oxygen stores and foraging behavior of two sympatric, planktivorous alcids
AB 8:221-235 | Full text in pdf format
Ponganis PJ, Meir JU, Williams CL
Oxygen store depletion and the aerobic dive limit in emperor penguins
AB 8:237-245 | Full text in pdf format
Mori Y, Takahashi A, Trathan PN, Watanuki Y
Optimal stroke frequency during diving activity in seabirds
AB 8:247-257 | Full text in pdf format
Shepard ELC, Wilson RP, Gómez Laich A, Quintana F
Buoyed up and slowed down: speed limits for diving birds in shallow water
AB 8:259-267 | Full text in pdf format
Zimmer I, Wilson RP, Beaulieu M, Ropert-Coudert Y, Kato A, Ancel A, Plötz J
Dive efficiency versus depth in foraging emperor penguins
AB 8:269-277 | Full text in pdf format
Ito M, Takahashi A, Kokubun N, Kitaysky AS, Watanuki Y
Foraging behavior of incubating and chick-rearing thick-billed murres Uria lomvia
AB 8:279-287 | Full text in pdf format
Kokubun N, Takahashi A, Ito M, Matsumoto K, Kitaysky AS, Watanuki Y
Annual variation in the foraging behaviour of thick-billed murres in relation to upper-ocean thermal structure around St. George Island, Bering Sea
AB 8:289-298 | Full text in pdf format
Shiomi K, Narazaki T, Sato K, Shimatani K, Arai N, Ponganis PJ, Miyazaki N
Data-processing artefacts in three-dimensional dive path reconstruction from geomagnetic and acceleration data
AB 8:299-304 | Full text in pdf format