Resource partitioning in the world’s largest gannetry

• Main Author: Botha, Jonathan Aubrey
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University 2017
• Subjects: Gannets > South Africa Birds of prey > Behavior > South Africa; Birds > Behavior; Bird Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/14707; http://vital.seals.ac.za:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:27828

Understanding strategies of resource partitioning within populations is a fundamental aspect of the study of ecology, and one which has been well documented across various taxa. In seabirds, sex-specific differences in foraging behaviour are often thought to reflect strategies of resource partitioni...