Large predators and their prey in a southern African savanna: a predator's size determines its prey size range

By F. Radloff, J. D. Toit. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Disease, predation and demography: Assessing the impacts of bovine tuberculosis on African buffalo by monitoring at individual and population levels (2009, background): “The current epidemic of BTB in KNP provides an opportunity to investigate the interaction of predation and disease because the predator community of the KNP remains intact and predation is the primary source of African buffalo mortality (this study; Radloff & du Toit 2004 ).”
Prey selection and dietary response by wolves in a high-density multi-species ungulate community (2011, background): “However, in multiple prey systems wolves often show a clear selection for a single prey species (Huggard 1993 ;J edrzejewski et al. 2000) even when the preferred prey is less abundant than others ( Potvin 1988; Dale et al. 1994; Kunkel et al. 2004).”
Age-related shifts in the diet composition of southern elephant seals expand overall foraging niche (2007, background): “Phenotypic plasticity in growth patterns combined with ontogenetic differences in behaviour may reduce competition for resources and the negative effects of environmental variation (Pianka 1981; Polis 1984; Schoener 1986; Post”
Prey preferences of the lion (Panthera leo) (2005, methodology): “used Schaller’s (1972) figure of three-quarters of the female body mass in our analyses.”
Evidence for the existence of a robust pattern of prey selection in food webs (2007, background): “…it has been shown that increasing predator size is associated with increasing mean prey size (Gittleman 1985; Vézina 1985; Carbone et al. 1999), and the energy increase from prey consumption must justify that spent during prey capture ( Wainwright 1996; Carbone et al. 1999; Radloff & Toit 2004).”
Coexistence of the tiger and the common leopard in a prey-rich area: the role of prey partitioning (2015, methodology): “Average weights of prey species were obtained from Schaller (1967), Dinerstein (1980), Karanth & Sunquist (1995), Odden & Wegge (2007) and Wegge et al.”