Structure and mechanism of diet specialisation: Testing models of individual variation in resource use with sea otters

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 475-483

  Tim Tinker, M ^a   Guimarães Jr , Paulo R ^b   Novak, Mark ^c,d   Marquitti, Flavia Maria Darcie ^b   Bodkin, James L ^e   Staedler, Michelle ^f   Bentall, Gena ^f   Estes, James A ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^f MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipartite networks; Diet specialisation; Modularity; Nestedness; Prey preference; Sea otter

Indexed keywords

DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DIET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; MUSTELID; PREY PREFERENCE; REFUGE; RESOURCE USE; SPECIALIZATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CARNIVORA; DIET; FOOD CHAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALS; DIET; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OTTERS; POPULATION DENSITY;

CARNIVORA; ENHYDRA;

EID: 84859432768     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01760.x     Document Type: Article

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