Abundance of wild prey modulates consumption of supplementary food in the Iberian lynx

Biological Conservation

Volumn 143, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1245-1249

  López Bao, José V ^a   Rodríguez, Alejandro ^a   Palomares, Francisco ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Behavioural dependency; Food supplementation; Lynx pardinus; Prey abundance; Trophic ecology

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; FELID; FITNESS; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LAGOMORPH; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; THRESHOLD; TROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; WILD POPULATION;

LYNX; LYNX PARDINUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 77951022113     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.02.033     Document Type: Article

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