Guardian or threat: does golden eagle predation risk have cascading effects on forest grouse?

Oecologia

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 487-498

  Lyly, Mari S ^a   Villers, Alexandre ^a,b   Koivisto, Elina ^a   Helle, Pekka ^c   Ollila, Tuomo ^d   Korpimäki, Erkki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^d Parks and Wildlife Finland   (Finland)

Author keywords

Intraguild predation; Mesopredator suppression; Top predator; Trophic cascade

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIRD; CANID; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; MUSTELID; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RAPTOR; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TROPHIC CASCADE;

FINLAND;

ACCIPITRIDAE; AQUILA; AQUILA CHRYSAETOS; AVES; BONASA BONASIA; CANIDAE; MAMMALIA; MARTES MARTES; TETRAO TETRIX; TETRAONIDAE; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

ANIMAL; EAGLE; FOREST; GALLIFORMES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION;

ANIMALS; EAGLES; FORESTS; GALLIFORMES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84976286259     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-016-3680-8     Document Type: Article

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