Coexistence of oceanic predators on wintering areas explained by population-scale foraging segregation in space or time

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 122-130

  Thiebot, Jean Baptiste ^a   Cherel, Yves ^a   Trathan, Philip N ^b   Bost, Charles André ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eudyptes filholi; Eudyptes moseleyi; Geolocation; Habitat use; Niche theory; Nonbreeding period; Penguins; Resource partitioning; Space segregation; Stable isotopes; Time segregation; Trophic ecology

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN;

BREEDING SEASON; CENTRAL PLACE FORAGING; COEXISTENCE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT USE; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MOVEMENT; NICHE PARTITIONING; PREDATOR; SEABIRD; SEAWATER; SIBLING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION; DEMOGRAPHY; PENGUIN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SEA; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME;

ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; DEMOGRAPHY; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; OCEANS AND SEAS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPHENISCIDAE; TIME FACTORS;

INDIAN OCEAN;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CRUSTACEA; EUDYPTES; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 84858678491     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0385.1     Document Type: Article

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