Benefiting from a migratory prey: Spatio-temporal patterns in allochthonous subsidization of an arctic predator

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 533-542

  Giroux, Marie Andrée ^a,b   Berteaux, Dominique ^a   Lecomte, Nicolas ^a,b,c,d   Gauthier, Gilles ^b   Szor, Guillaume ^a,d   Bêty, Joël ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^d Government of Nunavut   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anser caerulescens; Predator prey interaction; SIAR mixing model; Subsidies; Vulpes lagopus

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ALLOCHTHON; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CANID; COLONY STRUCTURE; FOOD WEB; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MARSH; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT CYCLING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REPRODUCTION; RODENT; SEABIRD; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; CANADA; DUCKS AND GEESE; FOOD CHAIN; FOX; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREDATION; REPRODUCTION; TIME;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ANSERIFORMES; ARCTIC REGIONS; ARVICOLINAE; CANADA; FOOD CHAIN; FOXES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; TIME FACTORS;

BYLOT ISLAND; CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; NUNAVUT;

ALOPEX LAGOPUS; ANIMALIA; ANSER; ANSER CAERULESCENS; ANSER CAERULESCENS ATLANTICUS; CANIDAE; CHEN; DICROSTONYX GROENLANDICUS; LEMMUS TRIMUCRONATUS; VULPES LAGOPUS;

EID: 84859606347     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01944.x     Document Type: Article

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