Dietary responses of arctic foxes Alopex lagopus to changing prey availability across an Arctic landscape

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 109-121

  Eide, Nina E ^a,b,c   Eid, Pål Martin ^b   Prestrud, Pål ^a   Swenson, Jon E ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic fox; Diet; Faecal analysis; Functional response; Predation; Preference

Indexed keywords

ALCIDAE; ALOPEX LAGOPUS; ANSER; ANSER SP.; LAGOPUS MUTUS; LARUS HYPERBOREUS; PLECTROPHENAX; PLECTROPHENAX NIVALIS; RANGIFER TARANDUS; SCOLOPACIDAE; VULPES;

EID: 21244493606     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/0909-6396(2005)11[109:DROAFA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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