Niche partitioning among and within sympatric tropical seabirds revealed by stable isotope analysis

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 416, Issue , 2010, Pages 285-294

  Young, Hillary S ^a   McCauley, Douglas J ^a   Dirzo, Rodolfo ^a   Dunbar, Robert B ^b   Shaffer, Scott A ^c  

^a Department of Biology ^*  (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c State University   (United States)

Author keywords

; 13C; 15N; Foraging ecology; Marine predators; Resource partitioning

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NICHE PARTITIONING; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PREDATOR; SEABIRD; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; STABLE ISOTOPE; SYMPATRY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

AVES;

EID: 77958485017     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08756     Document Type: Article

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