Foraging behaviour and habitat partitioning of two sympatric cormorants in Patagonia, Argentina

Ibis

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 558-564

  Frere, Esteban ^a,c   Quintana, Flavio ^b,c   Gandini, Patricia ^a,c   Wilson, Rory P ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PATAGONIA AUSTRAL   (Argentina)

^b CENTRO NACIONAL PATAGÓNICO   (Argentina)

^c WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^d SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Feeding ecology; Interspecific competition; Pelecaniformes; Red legged Cormorant Phalacrocorax gaimardi; Resource use; Rock Shags Phalacrocorax magellanicus; Seabirds; South America

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; DIVING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING GROUND; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; NICHE PARTITIONING; RADIOTELEMETRY; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; RESOURCE USE; SEABIRD; SYMPATRY;

ARGENTINA; PATAGONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

AVES; PELECANIFORMES; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PHALACROCORAX GAIMARDI; PHALACROCORAX MAGELLANICUS;

EID: 51349147194     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00824.x     Document Type: Article

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