Variability of resource partitioning in sympatric tropical boobies

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 441, Issue , 2011, Pages 281-294

  Kappes, Michelle A ^a   Weimerskirch, Henri ^b   Pinaud, David ^b   Le Corre, Matthieu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Area restricted search; Diet; GPS; Resource partitioning; Satellite tracking; Sula dactylatra; Sula sula

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GPS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOVEMENT; NICHE PARTITIONING; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION SIZE; SEABIRD; SYMPATRY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES; SCATTERED ISLANDS; TROMELIN ISLAND;

CEPHALOPODA; SULA DACTYLATRA; SULA SULA; SULIDAE;

EID: 81255167449     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09376     Document Type: Article

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