Planning for success: Serengeti lions seek prey accessibility rather than abundance

By J. Hopcraft, A. Sinclair, Craig Packer. 2005

552 citations recorded by the source corpus.

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/162703c969ee7c802279ea04dd6f09bb46f08af4

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Ecology

In Small Animals

Citations in the corpus

Spatiotemporal variation in activity of bat species differing in hunting tactics: effects of weather, moonlight, food abundance, and structural clutter (2007, background): “This relationship can, for example, force predators to select habitats that make the potential prey more vulnerable to attack, even if such places are not optimal with respect to prey abundance (Hopcraft et al. 2005).”
Confusion reigns? A review of marine megafauna interactions with tidal-stream environments (2015, background): “Concentrating foraging efforts at times and locations of increased prey vulnerability has been shown to significantly enhance predator foraging success (Quinn & Creswell 2004, Hopcraft et al. 2005, Crook & Davoren 2014).”
Diel predator activity drives a dynamic landscape of fear (2017, unknown): “Kill sites are a well-established metric of predation risk in wildlife systems (Hopcraft et al. 2005, Thaker et al. 2011, Gervasi et al. 2013, Lone et al. 2014).”
Large carnivore impacts are context-dependent (2017, background): “Behavioural responses by prey also encourage countermeasures in predators such as stealth, boldness and space-time use selection (Brown and Kotler 2007; Hopcraft et al. 2005).”
Landscapes of Coexistence for terrestrial carnivores: the ecological consequences of being downgraded from ultimate to penultimate predator by humans (2015, background): “It is hunting success, not the avoidance of predation risk that is commonly considered the major driver in habitat selection for large carnivores (Hopcraft et al. 2005, Balme et al. 2007).”
Ecological and social influences on the hunting behaviour of wild chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii (2006, background): “African lions, Panthera leo, hunt more in areas where prey are most vulnerable (Hopcraft et al. 2005), have better hunting success in long grass and on dark nights (Funston et al. 2001), and cooperate to capture large ungulates when the mutual benefits outweigh the costs (Grinnell et al. 1995).”
Isotopic evidence for dietary ecology of cave lion (Panthera spelaea) in North-Western Europe: Prey choice, competition and implications for extinction (2011, background): “However, extant lion populations exhibit important variations in their diet and prey choice, even within a given ecosystem, as documented in the Serengeti (Hopcraft et al., 2005).”
Spatial responses to predators vary with prey escape mode (2010, background): “In this system, lions prefer to hunt in complex habitats where they are cryptic (Hopcraft et al. 2005).”
Savanna herbivore dynamics in a livestock-dominated landscape. II: Ecological, conservation, and management implications of predator restoration (2007, background): “Declining species in Laikipia tended to be those that occurred in small groups, or more wooded habitats, or both, implying concealment and detection of both predators and prey were important factors (Hopcraft et al., 2005).”
How key habitat features influence large terrestrial carnivore movements: waterholes and African lions in a semi-arid savanna of north-western Zimbabwe (2010, background): “2009) where they have to go and drink regularly, and are accessible and vulnerable to predation by lions in the vegetation surrounding these water sources (Hopcraft et al. 2005).”
Habitat heterogeneity and mammalian predator–prey interactions (2012, background): “…habitat selection of highly mobile terrestrial mammals as a response to predation risk and prey availability confirm, however, the importance of spatial heterogeneity in understanding observed kill rates (e.g. Hebblewhite et al. 2005, Hopcraft et al. 2005, Kauffman et al. 2007, Zub et al. 2008).”
Group territoriality and the benefits of sociality in the African lion, Panthera leo (2009, result): “This result corroborated the findings of Hopcraft et al. (2005), which revealed the relationship between landscape characteristics (rather than prey abundance) and hunting success.”
Lion hunting behaviour and vegetation structure in an African savanna (2013, unknown): “Several recent studies have begun to explore the role of spatial heterogeneity in shaping the distribution of predatoreprey interactions across landscapes (Hopcraft et al. 2005; Valeix et al. 2009).”