Apex predators play pivotal roles in marine ecosystems, mediated principally through diet
and nutrition. Yet, compared with terrestrial animals, the nutritional ecology of marine …

Colonial animals experience density-dependent competition for food, which is posited to
influence foraging range and lead to inter-colony segregation. However, such patterns are …

Establishing diets and dietary generalism in marine top predators is critical for
understanding their ecological roles and responses to environmental fluctuations. Nutrition …

Human-induced rapid environmental changes can disrupt habitat quality in the short term. A
decrease in quality of habitats associated with preference for these over other available …

Microbiota exposed to pollution provide insights into host physiology and ecosystem
disruption. This study evaluated Enterococcus spp. tolerant to arsenic (As), copper (Cu), and …

Our understanding of the niche concept will remain limited while the quantity and range of
different food types eaten remain a dominant proxy for niche breadth, as this does not …

Flexibility in foraging strategy is an important mechanism by which seabirds cope with
spatiotemporal heterogeneity in food availability and the variable energetic constraints of …

Since several seabird species have sexual size dimorphism, in which one sex is larger than
the other, and may consume bigger prey, this size difference may affect the contamination …

Sexual size dimorphism in seabirds may reduce intraspecific food competition by exploiting
different trophic niches by each sex. We tested the intraspecific trophic segregation between …

Niche partitioning among different age, breeding status or sex classes allows resource use
to be maximized while reducing intraspecific competition. Individual specialization marks the …