Population-Scale Foraging Segregation in an Apex Predator of the North Atlantic.

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Vitor H Paiva, Ana I Fagundes, Vera Romão, Cátia Gouveia, Jaime A Ramos
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Santo Island; North Atlantic; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0151340; https://doaj.org/article/433d195151fa497daa2560c8fabe245f

In this work we investigated the between-colony spatial, behavioural and trophic segregation of two sub-populations of the elusive Macaronesian shearwaters Puffinus baroli breeding only ~340 km apart in Cima Islet (Porto Santo Island) and Selvagem Grande Island. Global location sensing (gls) loggers...