Mass regulation in response to predation risk can indicate population declines

Ecology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 945-955

  MacLeod, Ross ^a,b   Lind, Johan ^a,c   Clark, Jacquie ^d   Cresswell, Will ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Interrupted foraging; Mass dependent predation risk; Starvation risk

Indexed keywords

BIRD; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MASS EXTINCTION; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATION RISK; STARVATION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY WEIGHT; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BODY WEIGHT; ECOSYSTEM; GREAT BRITAIN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 34548528933     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01088.x     Document Type: Article

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