Modelling the combined effect of an obligate predator and a facultative predator on a common prey: Lynx Lynx lynx and wolverine Gulo gulo predation on reindeer Rangifer tarandus

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-43

  Andrén, Henrik ^a   Persson, Jens ^a   Mattisson, Jenny ^a   Danell, Anna C ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

carnivore conservation; food requirement; Gulo gulo; kill rate; Lynx lynx; predator compensation system; Rangifer tarandus; reindeer; scavenging; wolverine

Indexed keywords

GULO GULO; LYNX; LYNX LYNX; RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 79956114994     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/10-065     Document Type: Article

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