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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"mesopredator suppression"”.
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Determinants of predator abundance in northern KwaZulu-Natal: top-down or bottom-up?
… I investigated whether the relative abundance of mesopredators, facultative scavengers, and an apex predator were affected primarily by bottom-up processes (prey abundance) or by top-down processes (predator abundance), or a combination of the two. Central to this study was elucidating the complex …
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The effect of individual variability and larger carnivores on the functional response of cheetahs
… the rate at which prey are killed. Cheetahs are mesopredators and their behavior can be shaped by the need to avoid larger predators while hunting relatively large bodied and mobile prey. I used data from 34 years of observed cheetah hunts in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania to investigate how …