Predator-hunting success and prey vulnerability: Quantifying the spatial scale over which lethal and non-lethal effects of predation occur

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 556-562

  Cresswell, Will ^a   Lind, Johan ^b   Quinn, John L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cover; Hunting success; Predation risk; Refuge; Trait mediated interactions

Indexed keywords

CONCEALMENT BEHAVIOR; FAUNISTICS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAPTOR; REFUGE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STARVATION; TROPHIC STRUCTURE; VULNERABILITY; WADER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHARADRIIFORMES; ECOSYSTEM; HAWK; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; CHARADRIIFORMES; ECOSYSTEM; HAWKS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPERATURE;

ACCIPITER NISUS; ANIMALIA; TRINGA; TRINGA TOTANUS;

EID: 77954003838     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01671.x     Document Type: Article

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