Patterns of predation in a diverse predator–prey system

By A. Sinclair, S. Mduma, J. Brashares. Nature, 2003

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Prey preferences and dietary overlap amongst Africa's large predators (2008, background): “These results also confirm local patterns of predation in observed in individual ecosystems (Sinclair et al. 2003).”
Predation or scavenging? Prey body condition influences decision‐making in a facultative predator, the wolverine (2016, background): “The interaction between predators and their prey is a key factor driving population dynamics and shaping wildlife communities (Sinclair et al. 2003).”
Empirical Evidence of Density- Dependence in Populations of Large Herbivores (2009, background): “…sp.) living in highly variable environments (Caughley, 1977), muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) and reindeer living in highly seasonal environments (Caughley and Gunn, 1993; Gunn, 1992) or populations facing high predation pressures (McLoughlin et al., 2003; Sinclair et al., 2003; Wittmer et al., 2005).”
Collective Vigilance in the Greater Kudu: Towards a Better Understanding of Synchronization Patterns (2012, background): “We suspect that population dynamics of kudus is largely affected by predation, as kudu’s body size is close to threshold (150 kg) below which predation is expected to have a greater effect than resource in limiting ungulate populations (Fritz & Duncan 1994; Sinclair et al. 2003).”
Persistence of Large Mammal Faunas as Indicators of Global Human Impacts (2007, background): “Large carnivores frequently shape the number, distribu- tion, and behavior of their prey (Berger et al. 2001b; Sinclair et al. 2003; Terborgh 1988; Terborgh et al. 2001).”
Prey preferences of the lion (Panthera leo) (2005, positive): “This is also supported by long-term data from the Serengeti where carnivores are inefficient at catching prey outside their preferred size range (Sinclair et al., 2003).”
Whales as marine ecosystem engineers (2014, background): “Although very large body size is a deterrent to predation in most ecosystems (Sinclair et al. 2003), the marine realm contains species of large predators that are fully capable of subduing great whales.”
Evidence based review: positive versus negative effects of livestock grazing on wildlife. What do we really know? (2016, neutral): “First, small-bodied species are vulnerable to a range of predators and influences on cover may be more important to them than to large-bodied species which have fewer predators or do not use crypsis to hide from them (Sinclair et al 2003).”
Trophic cascades in a multicausal world: Isle Royale and Yellowstone (2014, background): “Sinclair et al. (2003) have investigated the relevance of body size. weather effects on elk, elk migration patterns, and harvest of NR wolves outside the boundary of YNP).”
Seeing Double:: Size-Based and Taxonomic Views of Food Web Structure (2011, background): “The way in which the range of prey sizes a predator consumes changes with the predator’s size has also been explored, especially in aquatic systems where gapelimited predation is prevalent (Leaper and Huxham, 2002; Sinclair et al., 2003; Warren and Lawton, 1987; Woodward and Hildrew, 2002; Woodward ”
Predators drive community structure in coral reef fish assemblages (2015, background): “Findings from this study are consistent with ecological models from terrestrial, freshwater and temperate marine systems, in which top predators are considered strong regulators of community structure (Shears and Babcock 2003, Sinclair et al. 2003, Carpenter et al. 2010).”
Behavioural interference between ungulate species: roe are not on velvet with fallow deer (2011, background): “Over an evolutionary time scale, the pressure of predation on wild herbivores (Sinclair et al. 2003) has probably selected for the development of mutual antipredator strategies rather than competitive behaviour patterns (Sinclair 1985).”
Savanna herbivore dynamics in a livestock-dominated landscape. II: Ecological, conservation, and management implications of predator restoration (2007, background): “Body size was (inversely) associated with susceptibility to predation by non-migratory prey in northern Serengeti National Park, where smaller-bodied prey species (including impala) increased dramatically upon temporary reduction of predators in the 1980s ( Sinclair et al., 2003 ).”
Life-History Characteristics of Mule Deer: Effects of Nutrition in a Variable Environment (2014, background): “…et al. 2009), the complex interactions between predation, climate, and density dependence on population dynamics continue to hamper identification of factors ultimately responsible for regulating population growth (Skogland 1991, Coulson et al. 2001, Sinclair and Krebs 2002, Sinclair et al. 2003).”