Isotopic segregation between sympatric seabird species increases with nutritional stress

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 442-445

  Barger, Christopher P ^a   Kitaysky, Alexander S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Food availability; Seabirds; Stable isotopes; Trophic segregation

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; COEXISTENCE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HORMONE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LIMITING FACTOR; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SEABIRD; STABLE ISOTOPE; SYMPATRY; WILD POPULATION;

BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANIMALIA; LARIDAE; URIA; URIA AALGE; URIA LOMVIA;

EID: 84861490200     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.1020     Document Type: Article

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