Niche partitioning among fur seals

• Main Author: Page, Brad
• Other Authors: La Trobe University.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Marine mammals; Southern fur seals Heard Island; Arctocephalus forsteri; satellite telemetry; dive recorders; drift dive; Heard Island; entanglement; Neophoca Heard Island; Competition (Biology) Heard Island; Resource partitioning (Ecology) Heard Island; Neophoca > South Australia > Kangaroo Island; Kangaroo Island; New Zealand; Southern Fur Seals
• Online Access: http://arrow.latrobe.edu.au:8080/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.9/57290

At Cape Gantheaume, Kangaroo Island (South Australia), adult male, lactating female and juvenile New Zealand (NZ) and Australian fur seals regularly return to the same colony, creating the potential for intra- and inter-specific foraging competition in nearby waters. I hypothesised that these demogr...