Effects of resource availability and interspecific interactions on Arctic and red foxes' winter use of ungulate carrion in the Fennoscandian low‐Arctic tundra

• Published in: Ecology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Lacombe, Simon, Ims, Rolf, Yoccoz, Nigel, Kleiven, Eivind Flittie, Nicolau, Pedro G., Ehrich, Dorothee
• Other Authors: Miljødirektoratet
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2024
• Subjects: Fennoscandia; Fennoscandian; Tundra
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11150; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ece3.11150

Abstract In the Arctic tundra, predators face recurrent periods of food scarcity and often turn to ungulate carcasses as an alternative food source. As important and localized resource patches, carrion promotes co‐occurrence of different individuals, and its use by predators is likely to be affected...