Diet overlap between harbour porpoise and bottlenose dolphin: An argument in favour of interference competition for food?

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 70, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 259-270

  Spitz, Jérôme ^a,b   Rousseau, Yann ^a   Ridoux, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^b CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

diet; interference competition; North Eastern Atlantic; Phocoena phocoena; top predator; Tursiops truncatus

Indexed keywords

DIETARY OVERLAP; DOLPHIN; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CONSUMPTION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; PORPOISE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF BISCAY;

ANIMALIA; CEPHALOPODA; PHOCOENA PHOCOENA; PHOCOENIDAE; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 57549084135     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2006.04.020     Document Type: Article

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