Simple Summary The red squat lobster Pleuroncodes monodon, a key crustacean in the Humboldt Current System (HCS), plays an important role as predator and prey of several …
Establishing marine species distributions is essential for guiding management and can be estimated by identifying potential favorable habitat at a population level and incorporating …
The competitive exclusion principle predicts that species exhibit segregation mechanisms to coexist. In the Humboldt Current System, South American sea lions Otaria byronia (SASL) …
Abstract Arias-Schreiber (2003) found that 20% of SAFS and 32% of SASL samples contained cephalopod beaks, whereas in our study cephalopod consumption was …
Determining trophic habits of predator communities is essential to measure interspecific interactions and response to environmental fluctuations. South American fur seals …
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The red squat lobster Pleuroncodes monodon is an important fishery resource in the Humboldt Current System (HCS). This decapod is exploited in two fishing units:(a) the …
Two sympatric pinniped species, Peruvian fur seals (PFS; Arctocephalus australis unnamed ssp.) and South American sea lions (SASL; Otaria byronia), reside in highly productive …
As top predators in coastal systems, pinnipeds (seals, sea lions and the walrus) play a significant role in the structure of marine communities (Estes et al. 2016, Trites 2001). In …