Predator-prey relationships in a Mediterranean vertebrate system: Bonelli's eagles, rabbits and partridges

Oecologia

Volumn 168, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 679-689

  Moleón, Marcos ^a,d   Sanchez Zapata J A ^b   Gil Sanchez J M ^a   Ballesteros Duperón, Elena ^a   Barea Azcon J M ^a   Virgós, Emilio ^c  

^a Junta de Andalucía ^*  (Spain)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Functional response; Numerical response; Prey density dependent model; Prey preferences; Total response

Indexed keywords

BIRD; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; LAGOMORPH; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL RESPONSE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY CAPTURE; PREY PREFERENCE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EAGLE; FOOD CHAIN; GALLIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; RABBIT; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ANIMALS; EAGLES; FOOD CHAIN; GALLIFORMES; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RABBITS;

SPAIN;

ACCIPITRIDAE; ALECTORIS RUFA; HIERAAETUS FASCIATUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84856773854     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-2134-6     Document Type: Article

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