Diet overlap among top predators at the South Orkney Islands, Antarctica

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Bertolin, María Lila, Casaux, Ricardo Jorge
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer
• Subjects: ANTARCTICA; DIETARY OVERLAP; SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS; TOP PREDATORS; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Austral; Argentina; South Orkney Islands; Ricardo; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Biology; Pygoscelis adeliae; Pygoscelis antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/95635

In order to understand interspecific trophic relationships between top predators, we analyzed diet information for nine bird and two seal species collected in the austral summer from 1996 to 2000 at South Orkney Islands. Overall, the diet of most of the predators was mainly composed of krill and fis...