A kaleidoscope of mammal, bird and fish: Habitat use patterns of top predators and their prey in Florida Bay

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 375, Issue , 2009, Pages 289-304

  Torres, Leigh G ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bottlenose dolphin; Competition; Foraging tactics; Habitat structure; Habitat use; Niche overlap; Nonmetric multidimensional scaling; Seabirds

Indexed keywords

DOLPHIN; FISH; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; NICHE OVERLAP; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; SEABIRD;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; FLORIDA BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; LARIDAE; MAMMALIA; PELECANIDAE; PELECANUS OCCIDENTALIS; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PHALACROCORAX AURITUS; TURSIOPS;

EID: 60949111889     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07743     Document Type: Article

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