Temporal and spatial interactions between an obligate predator, the Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx), and a facultative scavenger, the wolverine (Gulo gulo)

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 79-89

  Mattisson, Jenny ^a   Persson, Jens ^a   Andrén, Henrik ^a   Segerström, Peter ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; CARNIVORE; CONSPECIFIC; DEMOGRAPHY; FELID; HOME RANGE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MUSTELID; SCAVENGER; SPACE USE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TERRITORIALITY;

GULO GULO; LYNX; LYNX LYNX; RANGIFER TARANDUS; RANGIFER TARANDUS TARANDUS;

EID: 79953168451     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: 14803283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z10-097     Document Type: Article

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