Segregation in space and time explains the coexistence of two sympatric sub-Antarctic petrels

• Published in: Ibis
• Main Authors: Granroth-Wilding, Hanna M. V., Phillips, Richard A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; Bird Island; Giganteus; Antarc*; Giant Petrels; Macronectes giganteus
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/522079/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/522079/1/PetrelsAccepted.pdf; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/522079/7/SympatricPetrelsSOM_Accepted.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12584

Biological communities are shaped by competition between and within species. Competition is often reduced by inter- and intraspecific specialization on resources, such as differencet foraging areas or time, allowing similar species to coexist and potentially contributing to reproductive isolation. H...