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Mesocarnivores of Western Rangelands
There are 22 species of mesocarnivores (carnivores weighing < 15 kg) belonging to five families that live in rangelands of the western United States....
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Mesocarnivores vary in their spatiotemporal avoidance strategies at communications hubs of an apex carnivore
Mesocarnivores face interspecific competition and risk intraguild predation when sharing resources with apex carnivores. Within a landscape,...
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Can Eucalyptus plantations influence the distribution range of mesocarnivores?
ContextThe expansion of exotic plantations can impose conservation challenges on wildlife, and the Iberian Peninsula has one of the widest planted...
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Increasing homogeneity of Mediterranean landscapes limits the co-occurrence of mesocarnivores in space and time
ContextThe Mediterranean basin is characterized by a heterogeneous landscape historically shaped by human activities. Land abandonment and extensive...
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Increased bat activity at urban water sources: implications for cross-species transmission of bat rabies to mesocarnivores
We examined the potential for urban water sources, specifically golf course ponds, to act as centers for rabies transmission from bats to...
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Spatial relationships between mesocarnivores and domestic species in an urban environment and implications for endangered San Joaquin kit foxes
In the city of Bakersfield, CA, endangered San Joaquin kit foxes ( Vulpes macrotis mutica ) occur with raccoons ( Procyon lotor ), striped skunks ( Mephiti...
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Effect of anthropic disturbances on the activity pattern of two generalist mesocarnivores inhabiting Mediterranean forestry plantations
Humans have been altering the Mediterranean landscapes for millennia. To diminish the probability of encounters with domestic animals, humans and...
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Environmental effects on faecal genotyping success in mesocarnivores
Non-invasive genetic sampling can be used in research, monitoring, and conservation of wild animals to, for example, provide insights into diets,...
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Spatiotemporal patterns of wolf, mesocarnivores and prey in a Mediterranean area
AbstractSpatial and temporal occurrence can mediate behavioural interactions between apex predators, mesocarnivores and herbivores. Predators should...
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Spatio-temporal interactions within a Mediterranean community of Mesocarnivores
Species segregations and associations regulate the stability of communities. The aim of this study is to determine the spatio-temporal structure of a...
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“When the felid’s away, the mesocarnivores play”: seasonal temporal segregation in a neotropical carnivore guild
Interspecific competition within a carnivore guild can result in segregation along dietary, spatial, and temporal scales. Species interactions and...
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Variation in reversal learning by three generalist mesocarnivores
Urbanization imposes novel challenges for wildlife, but also provides new opportunities for exploitation. Generalist species are commonly found in...
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Temporal niche overlap among mesocarnivores in a Caatinga dry forest
Agonistic encounters among carnivores can be potentially avoided or minimized by shifts in daily activity patterns. Here, we investigated the...
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Interactions between carnivore species: limited spatiotemporal partitioning between apex predator and smaller carnivores in a Mediterranean protected area
BackgroundThere is need of information on ecological interactions that keystone species such as apex predators establish in ecosystems recently...
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Dog activity in protected areas: behavioral effects on mesocarnivores and the impacts of a top predator
Free-ranging dogs ( Canis familiaris ) negatively impact wildlife worldwide. Yet despite being members of the order Carnivora, we have relatively...
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Competitive interactions with dominant carnivores affect carrion acquisition of striped hyena in a semi-arid landscape of Rajasthan, India
Scavenging of carrion is an important ecological process that influences ecological communities and food webs. The competitive inter- and...
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Effects of early-life experience on innovation and problem-solving in captive coyotes
AbstractEarly-life experience often shapes behaviors like innovation and exploration. These behaviors are important to animals encountering novel...
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Scale-dependent habitat selection of sympatric mesocarnivore species in a cool temperate forest in eastern Japan
Habitat partitioning is a key mechanism that allows coexistence of species, but studies of sympatric mesocarnivore species’ habitat partitioning have...
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Molecular analysis of scats revealed diet and prey choice of grey wolves and Eurasian lynx in the contact zone between the Dinaric Mountains and the Alps
A comprehensive understanding of the dietary habits of carnivores is essential to get ecological insights into their role in the ecosystem, potential...
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An apex carnivore’s life history mediates a predator cascade
Apex predators can shape communities via cascading top–down effects, but the degree to which such effects depend on predator life history traits is...
