Love thy neighbour or opposites attract? Patterns of spatial segregation and association among crested penguin populations during winter

• Published in: Journal of Biogeography
• Main Authors: Ratcliffe, Norman, Crofts, Sarah, Brown, Ruth, Baylis, Alistair M.M., Adlard, Stacey, Horswill, Catharine, Venables, Hugh, Taylor, Phil, Trathan, Philip N., Staniland, Iain J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2014
• Subjects: Southern Ocean; Pacific; Steeple; Jason Island; Eudyptes chrysolophus
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/503712/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/503712/1/jbi12279.pdf; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jbi.12279/abstract

Competition for food among populations of closely related species and conspecifics that occur in both sympatry and parapatry can be reduced by interspecific and intraspecific spatial segregation. According to predictions of niche partitioning, segregation is expected to occur at habitat boundaries a...