Sexual segregation in a highly pagophilic and sexually dimorphic marine predator

• Published in: Peer Community Journal
• Main Authors: Barbraud, Christophe, Delord, Karine, Kato, Akiko, Bustamante, Paco, Cherel, Yves
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Peer Community In 2021
• Subjects: Archaeology; CC1-960; Science; Q; Dumont d'Urville; Dumont-d'Urville; Nivea; D'Urville Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica; Dumont D'Urville Sea; Sea ice; Snow Petrels
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.75; https://doaj.org/article/947fbb572e194af0ac25c8a297acf6f2

Sexual segregation is common in many species and has been attributed to intra-specific competition, sex-specific differences in foraging efficiency or in activity budgets and habitat choice. However, very few studies have simultaneously quantified sex-specific foraging strategies, at sea distributio...