Springer (part of Springer Nature), Marine Biology, 10(162), p. 1923-1938
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-015-2735-4
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resources or environmental conditions. This study supports the hypothesis that individual specialization may have important ecological consequences at both individual and population levels, such as implications in breeding performance or in intra-specific competition and, consequently, a high impact on ecological processes and foraging dynamics. Further investigation is required to identify the mechanisms that generate individual specialization and its ecological implications at both population and individual levels.