Diving seabirds share foraging space and time within and among species

Ecosphere

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Masello, Juan F ^a   Mundry, Roger ^b   Poisbleau, Maud ^a,d   Demongin, Laurent ^a,d   Voigt, Christian C ^c   Wikelski, Martin ^a   Quillfeldt, Petra ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Colonial seabirds; Diving seabirds; Ecological segregation; Foraging ecology; Gentoo Penguin; GPS temperature depth loggers; Imperial Shag; Magellanic Penguin; Optimal foraging; Phalacrocorax (atriceps) albiventer; Pygoscelis papua; Spheniscus magellanicus

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952953592     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES10-00103.1     Document Type: Article

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