Spatial distribution of lion kills determined by the water dependency of prey species

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1280-1286

  De Boer, Willem F ^a   Vis, Marc J P ^a   De Knegt, Henrik J ^a   Rowles, Colin ^b   Kohi, Edward M ^a   Van Langevelde, Frank ^a   Peel, Mike ^c   Pretorius, Yolanda ^a   Skidmore, Andrew K ^d   Slotow, Rob ^e   Van Wieren, Sipke E ^a   Prins, Herbert H T ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Klaserie Nature Reserve   (South Africa)

^c ARC Range and Forage Institute   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

body weight; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI); Panthera leo; prey availability; prey composition; randomization; savanna; vulnerability

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DRINKING WATER; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HABITAT TYPE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LINEARITY; MAMMAL; NDVI; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; SAVANNA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION TYPE; VULNERABILITY;

AFRICA; KLASERIE NATURE RESERVE; LIMPOPO; SOUTH AFRICA;

BOVIDAE; CONNOCHAETES TAURINUS; MAMMALIA; PANTHERA; PANTHERA LEO; SYNCERUS CAFFER; TRAGELAPHUS STREPSICEROS;

EID: 77958468115     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/09-MAMM-A-392.1     Document Type: Article

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