Moving to stay in place: Behavioral mechanisms for coexistence of African large carnivores

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2619-2631

  Vanak, Abi Tamim ^a,b   Fortin, Daniel ^c   Thaker, Maria ^a,d   Ogden, Monika ^e   Owen, Cailey ^a,e   Greatwood, Sophie ^a   Slotow, Rob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (India)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^e Karongwe Ecological Research Institute   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Carnivore community; Cost benefit trade off; Interference competition; Intraguild competition; Karongwe Game Reserve, South Africa; Movement ecology; Predator prey interactions; Top down effects

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CANID; CARNIVORE; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FELID; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; MOVEMENT; NICHE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC STRUCTURE; WILD POPULATION;

AFRICA;

ACINONYX JUBATUS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; LYCAON PICTUS; MAMMALIA; PANTHERA LEO; PANTHERA PARDUS;

EID: 84887984159     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-0217.1     Document Type: Article

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