Responses of a top and a meso predator and their prey to moon phases

Oecologia

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 753-766

  Penteriani, Vincenzo ^a,b   Kuparinen, Anna ^c   del Mar Delgado, Maria ^a,c   Palomares, Francisco ^a   López Bao, José Vicente ^a,d   Fedriani, José María ^a,e   Calzada, Javier ^f   Moreno, Sacramento ^a   Villafuerte, Rafael ^g   Campioni, Letizia ^a   Lourenço, Rui ^a,h  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^e HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

^g INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Carnivore coexistence; Intraguild predation; Lunar cycle; Predator prey interactions; Top mesopredators

Indexed keywords

CANID; CARNIVORE; COEXISTENCE; HUNTING; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; LUNAR CYCLE; MOON; MOVEMENT; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR; SMALL MAMMAL;

CANIDAE; LYNX; LYNX LYNX; LYNX PARDINUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FOOD CHAIN; FOX; LYNX; MOON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; RABBIT; SPAIN; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FOOD CHAIN; FOXES; LINEAR MODELS; LYNX; MOON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RABBITS; SPAIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84885954622     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-013-2651-6     Document Type: Article

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