Time-to-kill: Measuring attack rates in a heterogenous landscape with multiple prey types

Oikos

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 711-720

  McPhee, Heather M ^a,b   Webb, Nathan F ^a,c   Merrill, Evelyn H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Fish and Wildlife Division ^*  (Canada)

^c Alberta Sustainable Resource Development   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CANID; ENCOUNTER RATE; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; GPS; HETEROGENEITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MOVEMENT; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; TERRAIN; VULNERABILITY;

CANADA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

CANIDAE;

EID: 84859711758     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.20203.x     Document Type: Article

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