How to study a predator that only eats a few meals a year: high-frequency accelerometry to quantify feeding behaviours of rattlesnakes (Crotalus spp.)

RJ Hanscom, DL DeSantis, JL Hill, T Marbach… - Animal …, 2023 - Springer
Background Many snakes are low-energy predators that use crypsis to ambush their prey.
Most of these species feed very infrequently, are sensitive to the presence of larger …

Body mass is associated with hibernation length, body temperature, and heart rate in free-ranging brown bears

AL Evans, B Fuchs, NJ Singh, A Thiel, S Giroud… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - Springer
Background Despite centuries of research, debate remains on the scaling of metabolic rate
to mass especially for intraspecific cases. The high variation of body mass within brown …

When death comes: linking predator–prey activity patterns to timing of mortality to understand predation risk

S Shiratsuru, EK Studd, S Boutin… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The assumption that activity and foraging are risky for prey underlies many predator–prey
theories and has led to the use of predator–prey activity overlap as a proxy of predation risk …

Cryptic behavior and activity cycles of a small mammal keystone species revealed through accelerometry: a case study of Merriam's kangaroo rats (Dipodomys …

RJ Hanscom, JL Hill, C Patterson, T Marbach… - Movement Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Background Kangaroo rats are small mammals that are among the most abundant
vertebrates in many terrestrial ecosystems in Western North America and are considered …

Behavioural adjustments of predators and prey to wind speed in the boreal forest

EK Studd, MJL Peers, AK Menzies, R Derbyshire… - Oecologia, 2022 - Springer
Wind speed can have multifaceted effects on organisms including altering thermoregulation,
locomotion, and sensory reception. While forest cover can substantially reduce wind speed …

Simple, universal rules predict trophic interaction strengths

KE Coblentz, M Novak, JP DeLong - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Many critical drivers of ecological systems exhibit regular scaling relationships, yet, often,
the underlying mechanisms explaining these relationships are unknown. Trophic …

Behavioural Responses of Canada Lynx (Lynx canadensis) to Cyclic Declines in the Snowshoe Hare (Lepus americanus)

R Derbyshire - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Population cycles are characterized by predictable temporal oscillations in population size
and are influenced by densities of both predators and prey. These oscillations are …

[图书][B] Understanding the Relationship Among Cool Temperatures, Growth, Metabolism, and Energy Use of Ictalurus Spp

A Vaughn - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Although US commercial catfish aquaculture ponds are in temperate regions and
experience cool to cold temperatures during the winter, few studies have investigated the …