Can measures of prey availability improve our ability to predict the abundance of large marine predators?

Oecologia

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 563-568

  Wirsing, Aaron J ^a,b,c   Heithaus, Michael R ^c   Dill, Lawrence M ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apex predators; Dugong dugon; Galeocerdo cuvier; Ontogenetic diet shifts; Tiger shark

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BODY SIZE; DIETARY SHIFT; ONTOGENY; POPULATION MODELING; PREDATOR; PREY AVAILABILITY; SHARK; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DUGONG; FOOD CHAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; SEA; SHARK;

ANIMALS; DUGONG; FOOD CHAIN; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SHARKS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

CHELONIIDAE; CHONDRICHTHYES; DUGONG DUGON; GALEOCERDO; GALEOCERDO CUVIER; HYDROPHIIDAE; PHALACROCORACIDAE; SIRENIA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 34547781273     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0769-0     Document Type: Article

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