Conflict or co-existence? Foraging distribution and competition for prey between Adelie and chinstrap penguins

• Published in: Marine Biology
• Main Authors: Lynnes, A.S., Reid, K., Croxall, J.P., Trathan, P.N.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 2002
• Subjects: Marine Sciences; Zoology; Ecology and Environment; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Sandwich Islands; Signy Island; South Orkney Islands; South Sandwich Islands; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; Antarctica; Euphausia superba; Pygoscelis adeliae
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/13546/; http://www.springerlink.com/content/xqgjx5j7lwk9em6d/

Adelie (Pygoscelis adeliae) and chinstrap penguins (P. antarctica) are morphologically and ecologically very similar, have very similar diet and breed sympatrically in the Scotia Arc from the South Sandwich Islands to the Antarctic Peninsula. To investigate how these two species co-exist, their fora...