Individual variation in anthropogenic resource use in an urban carnivore

Oecologia

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 115-128

  Newsome, Seth D ^a   Garbe, Heidi M ^b   Wilson, Evan C ^c   Gehrt, Stanley D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic subsidies; Coyotes; Stable isotopes; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CITY; COYOTE; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; UNITED STATES; URBANIZATION; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHICAGO; CITIES; COYOTES; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; HOMING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84939953386     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-014-3205-2     Document Type: Article

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