Differential responses of three sympatric seabirds to spatio-Temporal variability in shared resources

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 468, Issue , 2012, Pages 291-301

  Sabarros, Philippe S ^a   Durant, Joël M ^a   Grémillet, David ^b,c   Crawford, Robert J M ^d,e   Stenseth, Nils Chr ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c DST/NRF Centre of Excellence   (South Africa)

^d Ocean and Coasts   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^f INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Benguela upwelling; Morus capensis; Phalacrocorax capensis; Population response; Prey fluctuations; Resource partitioning; South Africa; Spheniscus demersus

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOOD CHAIN; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NICHE PARTITIONING; OVERFISHING; SEABIRD; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SYMPATRY; UPWELLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BENGUELA CURRENT; SOUTH AFRICA;

CLUPEIDAE; ENGRAULIDAE; MORUS CAPENSIS; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PHALACROCORAX CAPENSIS; SPHENISCIDAE; SPHENISCUS DEMERSUS;

EID: 84869193565     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09972     Document Type: Article

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