Top-down population regulation of a top predator: Lions in the Ngorongoro Crater

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1550, 2004, Pages 1867-1874

  Kissui, Bernard M ^a   Packer, Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Food limitation; Inbreeding depression; Infectious disease; Interspecific competition; Population regulation

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DISEASE; FELID; FOOD LIMITATION; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; POPULATION REGULATION; PREDATOR; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD INTAKE; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY DEPENDENCE; POPULATION REGULATION; PREDATOR; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANZANIA; ANIMAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EATING; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION;

AFRICA; ARUSHA [TANZANIA]; EAST AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NGORONGORO CRATER; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA; WORLD;

PANTHERA LEO;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EATING; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; LIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SELECTION (GENETICS); TANZANIA;

EID: 5444266803     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2797     Document Type: Article

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