Poor health is associated with use of anthropogenic resources in an urban carnivore

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1806, 2015, Pages

  Murray, Maureen ^a   Edwards, Mark A ^b   Abercrombie, Bill ^c   St Clair, Colleen Cassady ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM   (Canada)

^c Animal Damage Control   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canis latrans; Human wildlife conflict; Spatial ecology; Stable isotope analysis; Urban adapters; Wildlife disease

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ASSIMILATION EFFICIENCY; CANID; FOOD CONSUMPTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HOME RANGE; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NICHE OVERLAP; PROTEIN; RESOURCE USE; URBAN REGION;

NORTH AMERICA;

ACARI; CANIS LATRANS; SARCOPTES SCABIEI;

AGE; ALBERTA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CITY; COYOTE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; ALBERTA; ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CITIES; COYOTES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH; HOMING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84928922996     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0009     Document Type: Article

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