Examining the prey mass of terrestrial and aquatic carnivorous mammals: minimum, maximum and range.

Predator-prey body mass relationships are a vital part of food webs across ecosystems and provide key information for predicting the susceptibility of carnivore populations to extinction. Despite this, there has been limited research on the minimum and maximum prey size of mammalian carnivores. With...

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Main Authors: Marlee A Tucker, Tracey L Rogers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/25162695/pdf/?tool=EBI