Building a mechanistic understanding of predation with GPS-based movement data

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1550, 2010, Pages 2279-2288

  Merrill, Evelyn ^a   Sand, Håkan ^b   Zimmermann, Barbara ^c   McPhee, Heather ^a   Webb, Nathan ^d   Hebblewhite, Mark ^e   Wabakken, Petter ^c   Frair, Jacqueline L ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

^d Alberta Sustainable Resource Development   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^f STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Carnivores; Functional response; Handling time; Kill rates; Movement; Predation

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; GPS; MOVEMENT; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; STATISTICAL APPLICATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77955181928     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0077     Document Type: Article

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