Offshore diplomacy, or how seabirds mitigate intra-specific competition: A case study based on GPS tracking of Cape gannets from neighbouring colonies

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 268, Issue , 2004, Pages 265-279

  Grémillet, David ^a   Dell'Omo, Giacomo ^b   Ryan, Peter G ^c   Peters, Gerrit ^a,d   Ropert Coudert, Yan ^e   Weeks, Scarla J ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d Earth and Ocean GmbH   (Germany)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Geolocation; Habitat partitioning; Home range; Morus capensis; Optimal foraging; Self organisation; Wildlife telemetry

Indexed keywords

GPS; HOME RANGE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; SEABIRD; SELF ORGANIZATION; TRACKING;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

AVES; MORUS (PLANT); MORUS CAPENSIS; SULIDAE;

EID: 17144467954     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps268265     Document Type: Article

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