Demographic differences in diet breadth of Canada lynx during a fluctuation in prey availability

• Published in: Ecology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Burstahler, Christa M., Roth, James D., Gau, Robert J., Murray, Dennis L.
• Other Authors: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, National Science Foundation
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2016
• Subjects: Canada; Fort Providence; Lynx
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2115; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fece3.2115; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ece3.2115; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/ece3.2115

Abstract Population dynamics of specialist carnivores are closely linked to prey availability, but the extent of variability in diet breadth of individual carnivores relative to natural variability in the abundance of their primary prey is not well understood. Canada lynx ( Lynx canadensis ) special...