Food and feeding ecology of the sympatric thinbilled Pachyptila belcheri and Antarctic P. desolata prions at Iles Kerguelen, Southern Indian Ocean

• Main Authors: Cherel, Yves, Bocher, Pierrick, De Broyer, Claude, Hobson, Keith A.
• Other Authors: Centre d'études biologiques de Chizé (CEBC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), LIttoral ENvironnement et Sociétés - UMRi 7266 (LIENSs), Université de La Rochelle (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Recherche sur les Ecosystèmes Littoraux Anthropisés (CRELA), Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de La Rochelle (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département des Invertébrés, Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique (IRSNB), Prairie and Northern Wildlife Research Centre, Environment and Climate Change Canada
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2002
• Subjects: Euphausia superba; Pachyptila; Petrels; Seabirds; Trophic relationships; Stablecarbon isotopes; Stable-nitrogen isotopes; Themisto gaudichaudii; [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology; [SDE.ES]Environmental Sciences/Environmental and Society; [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes; Antarctic; Kerguelen; Indian; The Beak; Antarc*; Copepods
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00191905

International audience The food and feeding ecology of the 2 closely related species of prions Pachyptila belcheri and P. desolata was investigated over 3 consecutive chick-rearing periods at Iles Kerguelen, the only place where they nest sympatrically in large numbers. In all years, the 2 prion spe...