Escaping intraguild predation: Mexican kit foxes survive while coyotes and golden eagles kill Canadian swift foxes

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1029-1039

  Moehrenschlager, Axel ^a,b   List, Rurik ^b,c   Macdonald, David W ^b  

^a Calgary Zoological Society   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Carnivore; Coexistence; Conservation; Home range; Intraguild predation; Refuge; Reintroduction

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; BODY SIZE; CANID; COEXISTENCE; DIET; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; HOME RANGE; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; MORTALITY; RANGE SIZE; RAPTOR; SURVIVAL;

CANADA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

AQUILA; AQUILA CHRYSAETOS; CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LATRANS; CYNOMYS LUDOVICIANUS; VULPES; VULPES MACROTIS; VULPES VELOX;

EID: 36649010853     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/06-MAMM-A-159R.1     Document Type: Article

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