Resource partitioning in sympatric arctic‐breeding geese: summer habitat use, spatial and dietary overlap of Barnacle and Pink‐footed Geese in Svalbard

• Published in: Ibis
• Main Authors: FOX, TONY (A. D.), EIDE, NINA E., BERGERSEN, ESPEN, MADSEN, JESPER
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2008
• Subjects: Animal Science and Zoology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Arctic; Svalbard; Sassendalen; Anser brachyrhynchus; Branta leucopsis
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919x.2008.00892.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1474-919X.2008.00892.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00892.x

The spatial, habitat and dietary overlap of two breeding goose species was studied in Sassendalen, Svalbard, in summer 2003 based on abundance within 500 × 500‐m grid squares and faecal diet analyses during pre‐breeding, nesting and post‐hatching periods. More than half of all Pink‐footed Geese Anse...