How well do predators adjust to climate-mediated shifts in prey distribution? A study on Australian water pythons

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 777-783

  Ujvari, Beata ^a   Shine, Richard ^b   Madsen, Thomas ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dusky rats; Extreme climatic events; Liasis fuscus; Predator prey demography; Rattus colletti; Spatial heterogeneity; Tropical Australia; Vagile species; Water pythons

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; HETEROGENEITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; RODENT; SEASONALITY; SNAKE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; RAT; SEASON; SNAKE; STATISTICS; TIME;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BOIDAE; CLIMATE CHANGE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RATS; SEASONS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS;

AUSTRALIA;

LIASIS FUSCUS; PYTHONIDAE; RATTUS; RATTUS COLLETTI;

EID: 79955542948     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-1471.1     Document Type: Article

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