Intra-guild competition and its implications for one of the biggest terrestrial predators, tyrannosaurus rex

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1718, 2011, Pages 2682-2690

  Carbone, Chris ^a   Turvey, Samuel T ^a   Bielby, Jon ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hunting behaviour; Scavenging; Scramble competition; Tyrannosaurus rex

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; CARRION; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; ENCOUNTER RATE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HERBIVORE; INTRAGUILD INTERACTION; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PREDATOR; SCAVENGING (FEEDING); SCRAMBLE COMPETITION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SYMPATRY; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANNIBALISM; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DINOSAUR; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HERBIVORY; NORTH AMERICA; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION;

ANIMALS; CANNIBALISM; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DINOSAURS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HERBIVORY; NORTH AMERICA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

DINOSAURIA; MAMMALIA; THEROPODA; TYRANNOSAURUS REX; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79960781645     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2497     Document Type: Article

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