Plastic response of fearful prey to the spatiotemporal dynamics of predator distribution

Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2622-2631

  Basille, Mathieu ^a,b   Fortin, Daniel ^a   Dussault, Christian ^c   Bastille Rousseau, Guillaume ^d,e   Ouellet, Jean Pierre ^f   Courtois, Réhaume ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Department de la Faune Terrestre et de l'Avifaune   (Canada)

^d TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antipredator behavior; Boreal woodland caribou; Canis lupus; Gray Wolf; Movement; Predation risk; Predator prey relationships; Prey cognition; Rangifer tarandus; Risk effects; Step selection functions; ote Nord region, Qu bec, Canada

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; CANID; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DEER; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GPS; HABITAT SELECTION; MOVEMENT; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WOODLAND;

CANADA; NORD DU QUEBEC; QUEBEC [CANADA];

CANIDAE; CANIS LUPUS; RANGIFER TARANDUS; RANGIFER TARANDUS CARIBOU; UNGULATA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FEAR; FEMALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; REINDEER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME; WOLF;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FEAR; FEMALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; REINDEER; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; WOLVES;

EID: 84944104373     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-1706.1     Document Type: Article

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