Experimental evidence of competitive release in sympatric carnivores

Biology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 170-172

  Trewby, Iain D ^a   Wilson, Gavin J ^a   Delahay, Richard J ^a   Walker, Neil ^a   Young, Richard ^a   Davison, John ^a   Cheeseman, Chris ^a   Robertson, Pete A ^a   Gorman, Martyn L ^b   McDonald, Robbie A ^a  

^a CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Badger; Culling; Ecological processes; Mesopredator release; Predator removal; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CANID; CARNIVORE; CULLING; DISEASE CONTROL; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATOR; SYMPATRY; TROPHIC CASCADE; TUBERCULOSIS;

ARTICLE; CARNIVORE; DISEASE CONTROL; ECOLOGY; ETHICS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOX; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATRY; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

CANIDAE; MELES MELES; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 40449142481     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0516     Document Type: Article

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