Prey choice and diet of wolves related to ungulate communities and wolf subpopulations in Poland

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1480-1492

  Jȩdrzejewski, Włodzimierz ^a   Niedziałkowska, Magdalena ^a,f   Hayward, Matthew W ^a   Goszczyński, Jacek ^b   Jȩdrzejewska, Bogumiła ^a   Borowik, Tomasz ^a   Bartoń, Kamil A ^a   Nowak, Sabina ^c   Harmuszkiewicz, Joanna ^b   Juszczyk, Andrzej ^b   Kałamarz, Tomasz ^b   Kloch, Agnieszka ^d   Koniuch, Joanna ^e   Kotiuk, Katarzyna ^e   Mysłajek, Robert W ^c   Nȩdzyńska, Monika ^a,f   Olczyk, Anna ^g   Teleon, Marta ^h   Wojtulewicz, Mariusz ^b  

^a MAMMAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c Association for Nature Wolf   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

^f ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^g WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^h SIEDLCE UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Canis lupus; deer; diet composition; genetic structuring; Poland; wild boar

Indexed keywords

CANID; DEER; DIET; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; PREY SELECTION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIALIZATION; SUBPOPULATION; TOPOGRAPHY; WILD POPULATION;

POLAND;

ALCES ALCES; CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS; CAPREOLUS; CAPREOLUS CAPREOLUS; CASTOR FIBER; CASTORIDAE; CERVIDAE; CERVUS ELAPHUS; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA; UNGULATA;

EID: 84871247749     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/10-MAMM-A-132.1     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. BOBEK, B., ET AL. 2001. Nowa metoda inwentaryzacji zwierzyny grubej [A new method of censusing large game]. Łowiec Polski 2001/1:17-21 (in Polish).
2. BOITANI, L. 2000. Action plan for the conservation of wolves in Europe (Canis lupus). Nature and Environment 113: 1-86.
3. CARMICHAEL, L. E., ET AL. 2007. Historical and ecological determinants of genetic structure in arctic canids. Molecular Ecology 16: 3466-3484.
4. CARMICHAEL, L. E., J. A. NAGY, N. C. LARTER, AND C. STROBECK. 2001. Prey specialisation may influence patterns of gene flow in wolves of the Canadian Northwest. Molecular Ecology 10: 2787-2798. (Pubitemid 34115517)
5. CENTRAL STATISTICAL OFFICE. 2007. Statistical yearbook of the Republic of Poland. Central Statistical Office, Warsaw, Poland.
6. DAĹEN, L., ET AL. 2005. Population history and genetic structure of a circumpolar species: the arctic fox. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 84: 79-89. (Pubitemid 40191447)
7. DEBROT, S. 1982. Atlas des poils de mammifers d'Europe. Universite de Neuchatel, Neuchatel, France.
8. DZIURDZIK, B. 1973. Key to the identification of hairs of mammals from Poland. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 18: 73-91.
9. FILONOV, K. P. 1989. Ungulates and large predators in wildlife reserves. Nauka, Moskva, Russia (in Russian).
10. GOSZCZYŃSKI, J. 1974. Studies of the food of foxes. Acta Theriologica 19: 1-18.
11. HAYWARD, M. W., P. HENSCHEL, J. O'BRIEN, M. HOFMEYR, G. BALME, AND G. I. H. KERLEY. 2006. Prey preferences of the leopard (Panthera pardus). Journal of Zoology (London) 270: 298-313. (Pubitemid 44394071)
12. HOELZEL, A. R., M. DAHLHEIM, AND S. J. STEARNS. 1998. Low genetic variation among killer whales (Orcinus orca) in the eastern North Pacific and genetic differentiation between foraging specialists. Journal of Heredity 89: 121-128. (Pubitemid 28196372)
13. JACOBS, J. 1974. Quantitative measurements of food selection; a modification of the forage ratio and Ivlev's electivity index. Oecologia 14: 413-417.
14. JEDRZEJEWSKA, B., AND W. JEDRZEJEWSKI. 1998. Predation in vertebrate communities: the Białowieza Primeval Forest as a case study. Springer, Berlin, Germany.
15. JEDRZEJEWSKA, B., W. JEDRZEJEWSKI, A. N. BUNEVICH, L. MIŁKOWSKI, AND Z. A. KRASIŃSKI. 1997. Factors shaping population densities and increase rates of ungulates in Białowieza Primeval Forest (Poland and Belarus) in the 19th and 20th centuries. Acta Theriologica 42: 399-451.
16. JEDRZEJEWSKA, B., H. OKARMA, W. JEDRZEJEWSKI, AND L. MIŁKOWSKI. 1994. Effects of exploitation and protection on forest structure, ungulate density and wolf predation in Białowieza Primeval Forest, Poland. Journal of Applied Ecology 31: 664-676.
17. JEDRZEJEWSKI, W., B. JEDRZEJEWSKA, H. OKARMA, AND A. L. RUPRECHT. 1992. Wolf predation and snow cover as mortality factors in the ungulate community of the Białowieza National Park, Poland. Oecologia 90: 27-36.
18. JEDRZEJEWSKI, W., B. JEDRZEJEWSKA, H. OKARMA, K. SCHMIDT, K. ZUB, AND M. MUSIANI. 2000. Prey selection and predation by wolves in Białowieza Primeval Forest, Poland. Journal of Mammalogy 81: 197-212. (Pubitemid 32122036)
19. JEDRZEJEWSKI, W., B. JEDRZEJEWSKA, B. ZAWADZKA, T. BOROWIK, S. NOWAK, AND R. W. MYSŁAJEK. 2008. Habitat suitability model for Polish wolves based on long-term national census. Animal Conservation 11: 377-390.
20. JEDRZEJEWSKI, W., M. NIEDZIAŁKOWSKA, R. W. MYSŁAJEK, S. NOWAK, AND B. JEDRZEJEWSKA. 2005. Habitat selection by wolves Canis lupus in the uplands and mountains of southern Poland. Acta Theriologica 50: 417-428. (Pubitemid 41475466)
21. JEDRZEJEWSKI, W., M. NIEDZIAŁKOWSKA, S. NOWAK, AND B. JEDRZEJEWSKA. 2004. Habitat variables associated with wolf (Canis lupus) distribution and abundance in northern Poland. Diversity and Distributions 10: 225-233. (Pubitemid 38592384)
22. JEDRZEJEWSKI, W., ET AL. 2002. Kill rates and predation by wolves on ungulate populations in Białowieza Primeval Forest (Poland). Ecology 83: 1341-1356. (Pubitemid 36524836)
23. JOOST, S., ET AL. 2007. A spatial analysis method (SAM) to detect candidate loci for selection: towards a landscape genomics approach to adaptation. Molecular Ecology 16: 3955-3969. (Pubitemid 47397327)
24. KNOWLES, J. C. 2010. Population genomics of North American grey wolves (Canis lupus). M.S. thesis, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
25. LEŚNIEWICZ, K., AND K. PERZANOWSKI. 1989. The winter diet of wolves in Bieszczady Mountains. Acta Theriologica 34: 373-380.
26. LEVINS, R. 1968. Evolution in changing environments. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.
27. LOCKIE, D. J. 1959. The estimation of the food of foxes. Journal of Wildlife Management 23: 224-227.
28. LOCKIE, D. J. 1961. The food of the pine marten Martes martes in West-shire, Scotland. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 136: 187-195.
29. LODE, T. 1990. Le regime alimentaire d'un petit carnivore, le putois Mustela putorius dans l'ouest de la France. Gibier Faune Sauvage 7: 193-203.
30. LUDT, C., J. W. SCHROEDER, O. ROTTMANN, AND R. KUEHN. 2004. Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of red deer (Cervus elaphus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31: 1064-1083. (Pubitemid 38617207)
31. MAPINFO CORPORATION. 2001. Mapinfo Professional 6.5 for Windows, New York. http://www.mapinfo.com. Accessed 15 April 2010.
32. MARUCCO, F., D. H. PLETSCHER, AND L. BOITANI. 2008. Accuracy of scat sampling for carnivore diet analysis: wolves in the Alps as a case study. Journal of Mammalogy 89: 665-673. (Pubitemid 351842438)
33. MATTIOLI, L., C. CAPITANI, E. AVANZINELLI, I. BERTELLI, A. GAZZOLA, AND M. APOLLONIO. 2004. Predation by wolves (Canis lupus) on roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) in north-eastern Apennine, Italy. Journal of Zoology (London) 264: 249-258. (Pubitemid 39459580)
34. MUSIANI, M., ET AL. 2007. Differentiation of tundra/taiga and boreal coniferous forest wolves: genetics, coat colour and association with migratory caribou. Molecular Ecology 16: 4149-4170. (Pubitemid 47481046)
35. NOWAK, S., R. W. MYSŁAJEK, AND B. JEDRZEJEWSKA. 2005. Patterns of wolf Canis lupus predation on wild and domestic ungulates in the western Carpathian Mountains (S Poland). Acta Theriologica 50: 263-276. (Pubitemid 40995681)
36. NOWAK, S., R. W. MYSŁAJEK, AND B. JEDRZEJEWSKA. 2008. Density and demography of wolf, Canis lupus population in the western-most part of the Polish Carpathian Mountains, 1996-2003. Folia Zoologica 57: 392-402.
37. OKARMA, H. 1989. Distribution and numbers of wolves in Poland. Acta Theriologica 34: 497-503.
38. OKARMA, H. 1995. The trophic ecology of wolves and their predatory role in ungulate communities of forest ecosystems in Europe. Acta Theriologica 40: 335-386. (Pubitemid 3021225)
39. PIANKA, E. R. 1973. The structure of lizard communities. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 4: 53-74.
40. PILOT, M., ET AL. 2006. Ecological factors influence population genetic structure of European grey wolves. Molecular Ecology 15: 4533-4553. (Pubitemid 44749567)
41. PILOT, M., ET AL. 2010. Phylogeographic history of grey wolves in Europe. BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 104.
42. POLZIEHN, R. O., AND C. STROBECK. 2002. A phylogenetic comparison of red deer and wapiti using mitochondrial DNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 22: 342-356. (Pubitemid 34978728)
43. PUCEK, Z. 1984. Klucz do oznaczania ssaḱow Polski [Key for identification of Polish mammals]. 2nd ed. Polish Scientific Publishers, Warsaw, Poland (in Polish).
44. PUCEK, Z., B. BOBEK, L. ŁABUDZKI, L. MIŁKOWSKI, K. MOROW, AND A. TOMEK. 1975. Estimates of density and number of ungulates. Polish Ecological Studies 1: 121-136.
45. ROGER, M., M. PASCAL, AND P. PRUNIERE. 1991. Facteurs correctifs de quantification du regime alimentaire du putois (Mustela putorius L.). Gibier Faune Sauvage 7: 343-357.
46. ROLSHAUSEN, G., G. SEGELBACHER, K. A. HOBSON, AND H. M. SCHAEFER. 2009. Contemporary evolution of reproductive isolation and phenotypic divergence in sympatry along a migratory divide. Current Biology 19: 2097-2101.
47. SELVA, N., B. JEDRZEJEWSKA, W. JEDRZEJEWSKI, AND A. WAJRAK. 2003. Scavenging on European bison carcasses in Białowieza Primeval Forest (eastern Poland). Ecoscience 10: 303-311. (Pubitemid 38065980)
48. SHARMA, D. K., J. E. MALDONADO, Y. V. JHALA, AND R. C. FLEISCHER. 2004. Ancient wolf lineages in India. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. Biological Sciences 271, supplement 3: S1-S4.
49. SIDOROVICH, V. E., L. L. TIKHOMIROVA, AND B. JEDRZEJEWSKA. 2003. Wolf Canis lupus numbers, diet and damage to livestock in relation to hunting and ungulate abundance in northeastern Belarus during 1990-2000. Wildlife Biology 9: 103-111. (Pubitemid 37060321)
50. SMIETANA, W., AND A. KLIMEK. 1993. Diet of wolves in the Bieszczady Mountains, Poland. Acta Theriologica 38: 245-251. (Pubitemid 2031295)
51. TEERINK, B. J. 1991. Hair of West-European mammals. Atlas and identification key. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
52. WAWRZYNIAK, P., W. JEDRZEJEWSKI, B. JEDRZEJEWSKA, AND T. BOROWIK. 2010. Ungulate management in Poland. Pp. 223-242 in Ungulate management in Europe in the 21st century (M. Apollonio, R. Putman, and R. Andersen, eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom.