Wolf-Pack Buffer Zones as Prey Reservoirs
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In a declining herd, surviving deer inhabited overlapping edges of wolf-pack territories. There, wolves hunted little until desperate, in order to avoid fatal encounters with neighbors. Such encounters reduce wolf numbers and predation pressure and apparently allow surviving deer along territory edges to repopulate the area through dispersal of their prime, less vulnerable offspring into territory cores.
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The use of Northern Range hunting grounds by multiple wolf packs does not conform to the widely held conceptual model of distinct territorial boundaries with interstitial prey refuges.
“Hunting grounds of the NR are used by multiple wolf packs, a situation that does not conform to the widely held conceptual model of distinct territorial boundaries with interstitial prey refuges that has been suggested on an empirical (Mech 1977) and theoretical (Lewis & Murray 1993) basis.”
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“Previous research has shown that wolf territories often overlap (Van Ballenberghe et al. 1975 ; Peterson 1977 ; Fritts and Mech 1981 ; Nelson and Mech 1981 ; Peterson et al. 1984 ; Jeþdrzejewski et al. 2007) . This tendency also occurred in northwestern Wisconsin and east-central Minnesota (Gehring 1995 ; Shelley and…”
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- Authors
- Mech, L. D.
- Affiliations
- United States Fish and Wildlife Service (US)
- Corresponding author
- Mech, L. David
- ORCID
- Mech, L. David
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1977-10-21
- Volume
- 198
- Issue
- 4314
- Pages
- 320-321
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2102080812
- Cited by
- 242
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 6.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Lincoln (University of Nebraska) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Keywords
- territorial overlap, offspring dispersal
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