Influence of Local Wind Conditions on the Flight Speed of the Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
Figure 5
The predicted relative influence of the wind components ( and ) on the air speed of great cormorants. The eastern direction was represented by positive values of and the northern direction by positive values of . Calculated air speed was significantly related to , but not to . The solid lines are the fitted functional response and the broken lines represent standard error curves.
