The forgotten prey of an iconic predator: a review of interactions between grey wolves Canis lupus and beavers Castor spp.

TD Gable, SK Windels, MC Romanski… - Mammal …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Predator–prey relationships can have wide‐ranging ecological and landscape‐level effects.
Knowledge of these relationships is therefore crucial to understanding how these systems …

Home range size, vegetation density, and season influences prey use by coyotes (Canis latrans)

JN Ward, JW Hinton, KL Johannsen, ML Karlin… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
To ensure reproductive success, Canis species establish contiguous mosaics of territories in
suitable habitats to partition space and defend limiting resources. Consequently, Canis …

Prey Preferences of the Jaguar Panthera onca Reflect the Post-Pleistocene Demise of Large Prey

MW Hayward, JF Kamler, RA Montgomery… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Documenting the impacts of the Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions on predator-prey
interactions is a challenge because of the incomplete fossil record and depauperate extant …

CarniDIET 1.0: A database of terrestrial carnivorous mammal diets

O Middleton, H Svensson… - Global Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Motivation A species' diet is central to understanding many aspects of its biology, including
its behaviour, movement, and ecological niche. The diets of terrestrial carnivorous …

Combining stable isotopes, morphological, and molecular analyses to reconstruct the diet of free‐ranging consumers

M Bonin, C Dussault, J Taillon, N Lecomte… - Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate estimates of animal diet composition are essential to untangle complex interactions
in food webs. Biomarkers and molecular tools are increasingly used to estimate diet …

Variation in adult and pup wolf diets at natal den sites is influenced by forest composition and configuration

GH Roffler, KL Pilgrim, KE Zarn… - Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Although wolves are wide‐ranging generalist carnivores throughout their life cycle, during
the pup‐rearing season wolf activity is focused on natal den sites where pup survival …

Wild ungulates constitute the basis of the diet of the Iberian wolf in a recently recolonized area: wild boar and roe deer as key species for its conservation

I Barja, Á Navarro-Castilla, L Ortiz-Jiménez, Á España… - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary We conducted a study in central Spain to understand the dietary habits of
the Iberian wolf. Our aim was to evaluate the extent to which they prey on domestic …

The problems with pooling poop: confronting sampling method biases in wolf (Canis lupus) diet studies

TD Gable, SK Windels… - Canadian Journal of …, 2017 - cdnsciencepub.com
Wolf (Canis lupus L., 1758) diet is commonly estimated via scat analysis. Several
researchers have concluded that scat collection method can bias diet estimates, but none of …

Inter-pack, seasonal and annual variation in prey consumed by wolves in Pollino National Park, southern Italy

P Ciucci, L Artoni, F Crispino, E Tosoni… - European Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Although understanding of food habits of wolves in human-modified landscapes is critical to
inform conservation and conflict management, no such studies have ever been conducted in …

Phenotypic integration in feliform carnivores: Covariation patterns and disparity in hypercarnivores versus generalists

M Michaud, G Veron, AC Fabre - Evolution, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The skeleton is a complex arrangement of anatomical structures that covary to various
degrees depending on both intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Among the Feliformia, many …