Seabird predation by great skuas Stercorarius skua - Intra-specific competition for food?

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 234-246

  Votier, Stephen C ^a,d   Bearhop, Stuart ^b   Crane, Jonathan E ^c   Manuel Arcos, José ^c   Furness, Robert W ^c  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BODY CONDITION; COLONIAL ORGANISM; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; SEABIRD; SIZE EFFECT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; SHETLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AMMODYTES MARINUS; AVES; CATHARACTA; CATHARACTA SKUA;

EID: 33847406231     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0908-8857.2007.03893.x     Document Type: Article

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