Resource partitioning through oceanic segregation of foraging juvenile southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina)

Oecologia

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 127-135

  Field, Iain C ^a   Bradshaw, Corey J A ^a,c   Burton, Harry R ^b   Sumner, Michael D ^a,d   Hindell, Mark A ^a  

^a School of Zoology   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^c CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Intra specific competition; Niche; Ontogeny; Phocid

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; NICHE PARTITIONING; PINNIPED;

AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; LIGHT; MALE; PHOCA; PHYSIOLOGY; SEA; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; LIGHT; MALE; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEALS, EARLESS; SEX FACTORS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

MACQUARIE ISLAND; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

ELEPHANT; MAMMALIA; MIROUNGA LEONINA; PHOCIDAE;

EID: 11944261308     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-004-1704-2     Document Type: Article

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