Use of stable isotopes to quantify seasonal changes of trophic niche and levels of population and individual specialisation in seabirds

By A. Jaeger, M. Connan, P. Richard, Y. Cherel. 2010

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Subfields: Ecology

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1. R. Phillips
2. Y. Cherel
3. Henri Weimerskirch
4. K. Delord
5. S. Bearhop
6. C. Layman
7. Jaime Ramos
8. P. Richard

Citations in the corpus

• The ecological causes of individual specialisation. (2011, background): “In our survey of the literature, we found only eight studies reporting cases of low or absent individual specialisation in just 12 species (Svanbäck & Persson 2004; Cherel et al. 2006; Poore & Hill 2006; Fontaine et al. 2008; Martı́nez del Rio et al. 2009; Jaeger et al. 2010; Matich et al. 2011; Sva”
• Lifetime foraging patterns of the wandering albatross: Life on the move! (2014, methodology): “…distinct areas, because δ13C values provide large-scale information restricted to latitude (water masses) and not longitude (Cherel and Hobson, 2007; Jaeger et al., 2010b); this limitation has been confirmed by tracking data, which show that Kerguelen birds favour the subtropical Pacific Ocean…”
• Applying stable isotopes to examine food‐web structure: an overview of analytical tools (2012, background): “Similarly, Jaeger et al. (2010) collected multiple feathers from individual seabirds to estimate Roughgarden’s (1974) index of individual specialization (WIC/TNW where TNW is the total niche width of the seabird population), using the variation within an individual’s feathers as an estimate of WIC…”
• Short- and long-term consistency in the foraging niche of wandering albatrosses (2012, background): “Hence, the isotopic signature of plasma is the representative of the food and feeding ecology of the birds during their single tracking trip (Jaeger et al. 2010b).”
• Seasonal variation in oceanographic habitat and behaviour of white-chinned petrels Procellaria aequinoctialis from Kerguelen Island (2010, result): “The kernel density distribution indicated that petrels exploit neritic waters over the narrow continental shelf (<500 m), in agreement with conclusions reached in a recent stable isotope study (Jaeger et al. 2010).”