Seeing a Ghost? Vigilance and Its Drivers in a Predator-free World

Ethology

Volumn 121, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 651-660

  Le Saout, Soizic ^a   Martin, Jean Louis ^a   Blanchard, Pierrick ^b   Cebe, Nicolas ^c   Hewison, A J Mark ^c   Rames, Jean Luc ^c   Chamaillé Jammes, Simon ^a  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Apprehensive foraging; Camera trap; Predation risk; Relaxed selection; Risk management; Trade off; Ungulate

Indexed keywords

DEER; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR; VIDEOGRAPHY; VIGILANCE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS;

CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS COLUMBIANUS; ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS SITKENSIS; UNGULATA;

EID: 84930396543     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eth.12377     Document Type: Article

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