Food or fear? Predation risk mediates edge refuging in an insectivorous mammal

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1099-1106

  Hof, Anouschka R ^a,b,c   Snellenberg, Jolanda ^d   Bright, Paul W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arable landscape; Erinaceus europaeus; Field margin; Food availability; Hedgehog; Invertebrate; Landscape of fear; Meles meles; Predator prey interaction; Spatial use

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COMPLEXITY; EDGE EFFECT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FIELD MARGIN; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HABITAT TYPE; HEDGEROW; INSECTIVORE; MOVEMENT; MUSTELID; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RADIOTELEMETRY; REFUGIUM; RURAL AREA; SMALL MAMMAL; SPACE USE; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; ERINACEIDAE; ERINACEUS EUROPAEUS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; MELES MELES; TAXIDIINAE;

EID: 84858750951     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.01.042     Document Type: Article

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