Negotiating multiple cues of predation risk in a landscape of fear: What scares free-ranging brushtail possums?

Journal of Zoology

Volumn 294, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 22-30

  Mella, V S A ^a   Banks, P B ^a   Mcarthur, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Foraging; Habitat cues; Indirect cues; Landscape of fear; Predation risk; Predator cues

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906683332     PISSN: 09528369     EISSN: 14697998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jzo.12146     Document Type: Article

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