Density-dependent increase in superpredation linked to food limitation in a recovering population of northern goshawks, Accipiter gentilis

We are grateful to R. Lourenço and A.K. Mueller for their helpful comments. We thank Forest Research for funding all fieldwork on goshawks during 1973-1996, Forest Enterprise for funding fieldwork after 1998 and T. Dearnley and N. Geddes for allowing and facilitating work in Kielder Forest. This wor...

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Published in:Journal of Avian Biology
Main Authors: Hoy, S R, Petty, S J, Millon, A, Whitfield, D P, Marquiss, M, Anderson, D I K, Davison, M, Lambin, X
Other Authors: University of Aberdeen.Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen.Environment and Food Security
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2017
Subjects:
food-stress hypothesis
intraguild predation
mesopredator suppression
QH301 Biology
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
NE/J500148/1
NE/F021402/1
QH301
Accipiter gentilis
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2164/10802
https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.01387
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Summary:We are grateful to R. Lourenço and A.K. Mueller for their helpful comments. We thank Forest Research for funding all fieldwork on goshawks during 1973-1996, Forest Enterprise for funding fieldwork after 1998 and T. Dearnley and N. Geddes for allowing and facilitating work in Kielder Forest. This work was also partly funded by a Natural Environment Research Council studentship NE/J500148/1 to SH and a grant NE/F021402/1 to XL and by Natural Research. We thank I. Yoxall and B. Little for the data they collected and their contributions to this study. Lastly, we thank English Nature and the British Trust for Ornithology for kindly issuing licences to monitor goshawk nest sites Peer reviewed

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