The puma Puma concolor is the fourth largest wild felid and the most widespread native
terrestrial mammal of the Americas. We synthesised published literature documenting the …

Scientists and conservationists are beginning to understand the importance of top
carnivores to the health and integrity of fully functioning ecosystems. As burgeoning human …

Large carnivores play critical roles in terrestrial ecosystems but have suffered dramatic
range contractions over the past two centuries. Developing an accurate understanding of …

Large carnivores perform keystone ecological functions through direct predation, or
indirectly, through food subsidies to scavengers or trophic cascades driven by their influence …

Background Interspecific competition affects species fitness, community assemblages and
structure, and the geographic distributions of species. Established dominance hierarchies …

Loss of livestock is one of the greatest sources of conflict between humans and large felids
worldwide. The puma Puma concolor is the most widespread apex predator in the Americas …

Knowing the factors that affect the abundance and activity patterns of pumas (Puma
concolor) in South American forests may help in their conservation. Using camera traps, we …

The puma Puma concolor is the most widely distributed felid in the Americas. Although it
utilizes human-modified landscapes, its extensive territorial requirements, trophic needs …

The fear induced by predators on their prey is well known to cause behavioural adjustments
by prey that can ripple through food webs. Little is known, however, about the analogous …

Populations of generalist foragers may in fact be composed of individuals that select
different prey. We monitored 9 pumas (Puma concolor) in Chilean Patagonia using Argos …