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Wolf Predation: Where and How Wolves Kill Beavers, and Confronting the Biases in Scat-Based Diet Studies
… by cutting off access to water.</p> <p> Wolf diet is commonly estimated via scat analysis, and several studies have concluded that scat collection method can bias diet estimates. I tested whether different scat collection methods yield different diet estimates after accounting for other …
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Movements, Resource Selection, And Risk Analyses For Parasitic Disease In An Expanding Moose Population In The Northern Great Plains
… selection and collected fecal samples for diet estimates. I reviewed historical data and examined livers moose for evidence of <em>F. magna</em> infection. I examined 3730 white-tailed deer for <em>P. tenuis</em> and investigated whether prevalence had increased since 1991. I modeled the …
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Comparing body condition and foraging ecology of two populations of Cape Gannets on Bird and Malgas Islands
… fledging mass. I compared the foraging ecology, diet and body condition of adult Cape gannets from two colonies, one where individuals have been feeding on fishery wastes (hake) for several years (Malgas Island; west coast) and the other where individuals feed on natural prey (Bird Island; south …