The noble cats and the big bad scavengers: Effects of dominant scavengers on solitary predators

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1297-1304

  Krofel, Miha ^a   Kos, Ivan ^a   Jerina, Klemen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Competition; Interspecific interactions; Kleptoparasitism; Lynx lynx; Temperate forest; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

BEAR; BIOMASS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FELID; FITNESS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HOLARCTIC REGION; HUNTING; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; KLEPTOPARASITISM; LACTATION; MORPHOLOGY; SCAVENGING (FEEDING);

FELIDAE; LYNX; LYNX LYNX; URSIDAE; URSUS ARCTOS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84865658538     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-012-1384-6     Document Type: Article

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