A Common Rule for the Scaling of Carnivore Density

By Chris Carbone, J. L. Gittleman. Science, 2002

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The potential for large carnivores to act as biodiversity surrogates in southern Africa (2008, background): “Since large carnivores have among the largest home range requirements among terrestrial mammals (Carbone and Gittleman 2002), they are natural candidates for suitable umbrella species (Noss et al.”
Temporal resource partitioning by bats at water holes (2006, background): “In mammals, niche differences that facilitate species coexistence have been most intensely studied for sympatric species of Carnivora, and many of these investigations have elucidated coarse-grain (large-scale) differences associated with prey size preferences related to predator body sizes (Greene ”
Carrying capacity of large African predators : Predictions and tests (2007, methodology): “The predictions of carrying capacity based on the predator– prey relationships identified by Carbone and Gittleman (2002) yielded similar results to ours for lion (Tables 5 and 6).”
Multispecies assessment of core areas and connectivity of desert carnivores in central Iran (2018, background): “In many studies, carnivore habitat suitability has been linked to prey distribution (e.g., Carbone & Gittleman, 2002; Rostro- García, Kamler, & Hunter, 2015).”
Human Population Density and Extinction Risk in the World's Carnivores (2004, background): “DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020197.t001 PLoS Biology | http://biology.plosjournals.org July 2004 | Volume 2 | Issue 7 | Page 0910 trophic levels may be compounded by their need for large hunting areas and their dependence on prey species that may themselves be threatened (Carbone and Gittleman 2002).”
Body Size Overlap, Habitat Partitioning and Living Space Requirements of Terrestrial Vertebrate Predators: Implications for the Paleoecology of Large Theropod Dinosaurs (2002, background): “for large endotherms and big carnivores (Flannery, 1991; Diamond, 1991; Farlow, 1993; McNab, 1994; Farlow et al., 1995; Buskirk, 1999; Craighead et al., 1999; Burness et al., 2001; Carbone and Gittleman, 2002).”
Thermodynamic and metabolic effects on the scaling of production and population energy use (2003, background): “Interestingly, a recent paper on the scaling of carnivore density ( Carbone & Gittleman 2002 ) reported that the standing biomass of predators represented c. 1% of the standing biomass of their prey.”
Big cats kill more livestock when wild prey reaches a minimum threshold (2015, background): “Unlike other big cats, cheetah density is relatedmore to competition with larger competitors than to prey availability (Carbone and Gittleman, 2002; Carbone et al., 2011).”
Paleoecology of the large carnivore guild from the late Pleistocene of Argentina (2006, background): “…carnivores in different hab− itats (e.g., Bertram 1979; Handy and Biggot 1979; Macdon− ald 1983; East 1984; Creel et al. 2001; Fuller and Sievert 2001; Carbone and Gittleman 2002; Höner et al. 2005), which is an important observation for the imbalance hypoth− esis of Fariña (1996; see below).”
Assessing global patterns in mammalian carnivore occupancy and richness by integrating local camera trap surveys (2017, background): “Despite these limitations, our research still supported the vital role prey populations play in maintaining carnivore communities across a broad range of ecosystems (Carbone & Gittleman, 2002; Fuller & Sievert, 2001).”