Fear of the dark or dinner by moonlight? Reduced temporal partitioning among Africa's large carnivores

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2590-2599

  Cozzi, Gabriele ^a,b   Broekhuis, Femke ^b,c   Mcnutt, John W ^b   Turnbull, Lindsay A ^a   Macdonald, David W ^c   Schmid, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b BOTSWANA PREDATOR CONSERVATION TRUST   (Botswana)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activity data loggers; African carnivore guild; Coexistence; Costs benefits; Moonlight; Nocturnal activity; Predator predator relationships; Temporal niche

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CANID; CARNIVORE; COEXISTENCE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIEL VARIATION; DOMINANCE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; HUNTING; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; PARTITIONING; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CARNIVORA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; TIME;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; CARNIVORA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

BOTSWANA; NGAMILAND; OKAVANGO DELTA;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; CROCUTA CROCUTA; LYCAON PICTUS;

EID: 84871795017     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-0017.1     Document Type: Article

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