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Wolf-Pack Buffer Zones as Prey Reservoirs
Abstract
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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“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.”
From Landscape heterogeneity shapes predation in a newly restored predator–prey system (2007) · cites this paper as Mech 1977
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White-Tailed Deer Migration and Its Role in Wolf Predation
Hoskinson, R. L., & Mech, L. D. (1976) · The Journal of Wildlife Management · doi:10.2307/3799944 · Cited by 108
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Wolves influence elk movements: Behavior shapes a trophic cascade in Yellowstone National Park
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“Avoidance among wolf packs creates buffer zones where ungulates may aggregate (Mech 1977, Lewis and Murray 1993).”
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“For example, in a wolf–ungulate system, ungulates may seek refuge by migrating to areas outside the core territories of wolves (migration) or survive longer outside the wolves’ core use areas (mortality) (Mech 1977).”
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“For example, deer are known to keep to the periphery of wolf territories (Hoskinson & Mech 1976; Mech 1977) and re- duce their feeding effort when exposed to odors of wolves and other predator species (Muller-Schwarze 1972; Sullivan et al. 1985).”
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“When wolves were present, ungulate antipredator strategies may have included the avoidance of high wolf use areas (Mech, 1977; Roby, 1978; Allen, 1979; Edwards, 1983; Ferguson et al., 1988).”
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Metadata
- 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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