Foraging segregation between two closely related shearwaters breeding in sympatry

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 545-548

  Navarro, Joan ^a   Forero, Manuela G ^a   González Solís, Jacob ^b   Igual, José Manuel ^c   Bécares, Juan ^d   Hobson, Keith A ^e  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^d SEO/BirdLife   (Spain)

^e ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Feeding ecology; Migration; Satellite tracking; Seabirds; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; NITROGEN 15;

ANNUAL CYCLE; BLOOD; BROOD REARING; COEXISTENCE; FEATHER; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FLY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MIGRATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEABIRD; STABLE ISOTOPE; SUBSPECIES; SYMPATRY; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREEDING; FEATHER; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FLYING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FORELIMB; GIBRALTAR; INCUBATION TIME; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; SEABIRD; SEASHORE; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SYMPATRY; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ANIMALIA; CALONECTRIS DIOMEDEA BOREALIS; CALONECTRIS DIOMEDEA DIOMEDEA; DIOMEDEA; PROCELLARIIDAE;

EID: 66649100956     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0150     Document Type: Article

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