Coyote abundance, sheep predation, and wild prey correlates illuminate Mediterranean trophic dynamics

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2404-2411

  Sacks, Benjamin N ^a   Neale, Jennifer C C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b American River College   (United States)

Author keywords

Apparent competition; California; Canis latrans; Coyote; Indirect effects; Predation; Predator; Prey; Sheep; Trophic

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; CANID; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PREDATION; PREY AVAILABILITY; RAINFALL; SHEEP; TROPHIC INTERACTION; WILD POPULATION;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CANIS LATRANS; MURIDAE; OVIS ARIES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 48249108679     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2006-564     Document Type: Article

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