Inter-Specific and Intra-Specific Competition of Two Sympatrically Breeding Seabirds, Chinstrap and Gentoo Penguins, at Two Neighboring Colonies

• Published in: Animals
• Main Authors: Won Young Lee, Seongseop Park, Kil Won Kim, Jeong-Hoon Kim, Jong-Ku Gal, Hosung Chung
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: inter-specific competition; intra-specific competition; niche partitioning; Chinstrap penguin; Gentoo penguin; Ardley; Ardley Island; King George Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11020482

Theory predicts that sympatric predators compete for food under conditions of limited resources. Competition would occur even within the same species, between neighboring populations, because of overlapping foraging habits. Thus, neighboring populations of the same species are hypothesized to face s...