Interspecific and intraspecific foraging differentiation of neighbouring tropical seabirds.
Rhiannon E AustinF De PascalisS C VotierJ HaakonssonJ P Y ArnouldG Ebanks-PetrieJ NewtonJ HarveyJ A GreenPublished in: Movement ecology (2021)
Our results reveal how, in an environment where opportunities for prey diversification are limited, neighbouring seabird species segregate at-sea, while exhibiting differing degrees of sexual differentiation. While the mechanisms underlying observed patterns remain unclear, our data are consistent with the idea that multiple factors involving both conspecifics and heterospecifics, as well as reproductive pressures, may combine to influence foraging differences in these neighbouring tropical species.