Foraging and provisioning strategies of the light-mantled sooty albatross at South Georgia: Competition and co-existence with sympatric pelagic predators

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 285, Issue , 2005, Pages 259-270

  Phillips, R A ^a   Silk, J R D ^a   Croxall, J P ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activity pattern; Competition; Niche specialisation; Provisioning rate; Spatial segregation

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; FOOD PROVISIONING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; SEABIRD;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; BIRD ISLAND [SOUTH GEORGIA]; SOUTH GEORGIA; WORLD;

AVES; CHRYSOSTOMA; CICONIIFORMES; DIOMEDEA; DIOMEDEA CHRYSOSTOMA; DIOMEDEA EXULANS; GALLUS GALLUS; PHOEBETRIA PALPEBRATA; PROCELLARIA AEQUINOCTIALIS; THALASSARCHE CHRYSOSTOMA; THALASSARCHE MELANOPHRYS;

EID: 13944261239     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps285259     Document Type: Article

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