The landscape of fear: The missing link to understand top-down and bottom-up controls of prey abundance?

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1141-1152

  Laundré, John W ^a,b,c   Hernández, Lucina ^a,b,c   López Medina, Perla ^d   Campanella, Andrea ^b   López Portillo, Jorge ^a   González Romero, Alberto ^a   Grajales Tam, Karina M ^a   Burke, Anna M ^e   Gronemeyer, Peg ^b   Browning, Dawn M ^f  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE QUERÉTARO   (Mexico)

^e Jornada Basin LTER/USDA ARS New Mexico State University ^*  (United States)

^f U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom up control; Chihuahuan Desert; Dipodomys merriami; Durango; Fox abundance; Jornada Experimental Range; Landscape of fear; Mapim Biosphere Reserve; Merriami kangaroo rat; Mexico; New Mexico; Parallel control effects; Population density; Predation risk; Species conservation and management; Top down control; United States and Mexico; USA

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; HABITAT CONSERVATION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; POPULATION ECOLOGY; POPULATION SIZE; PREDATION RISK; RODENT; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

CHIHUAHUAN DESERT; DURANGO [MEXICO]; JORNADA EXPERIMENTAL RANGE; MAPIMI BIOSPHERE RESERVE; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DIPODOMYS; ECOSYSTEM; FEAR; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION;

ANIMALS; DIPODOMYS; ECOSYSTEM; FEAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84903585319     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-1083.1     Document Type: Article

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