Separating spatial search and efficiency rates as components of predation risk

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1747, 2012, Pages 4626-4633

  DeCesare, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregative response; Functional response; Predation risk; Time to kill; Wolves; Woodland caribou

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; CANID; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RESOURCE SELECTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHY; WOODLAND;

EID: 84867554609     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1698     Document Type: Article

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