Patterns in grouse and Woodcock Scolopax rusticola hunting yields from central Norway 1901–24 do not support the alternative prey hypothesis for grouse cycles
According to the alternative prey hypothesis, autumn populations of ground‐nesting game birds fluctuate in synchrony with vole numbers because generalist predators that mainly eat voles switch to alternative prey, such as eggs and chicks, when vole numbers decline. In hunting statistics from Nord‐Tr...
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Wiley
2006
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919x.2006.00566.x https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1474-919X.2006.00566.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1474-919X.2006.00566.x |