Evaluation of the importance of roe deer fawns in the spring-summer diet of red foxes in southeastern Norway

Ecological Research

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 889-896

  Panzacchi, Manuela ^a,d   Linnell, John D C ^b   Serrao, Giulia ^b,e   Eie, Sveinung ^a   Odden, Morten ^c   Odden, John ^b   Andersen, Reidar ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^d Istituto Nazionale per la Fauna Selvatica   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alternative prey; Meso predators; Optimal foraging theory; Predator prey interactions; Voles

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BREEDING SEASON; CANID; DEER; DIET; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; RODENT; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SUMMER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

CANIDAE; CAPREOLUS; CAPREOLUS CAPREOLUS; CERVIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS AGRESTIS; MURIDAE; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 50649096587     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-007-0452-2     Document Type: Article

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