Age and sex-selective predation moderate the overall impact of predators

• Published in: Journal of Animal Ecology
• Main Authors: Hoy, Sarah R, Petty, Steve J, Millon, Alexandre, Whitfield, D Philip, Marquiss, Michael, Davison, Martin, Lambin, Xavier
• Other Authors: University of Aberdeen.Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen.Environment and Food Security
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities; Accipiter gentilis; mesopredator; northern goshawk; population dynamics; predatory interactions; recruitment; senescence; Strix aluco; superpredator; tawny owl; QL Zoology; Natural Environment Research Council (NERC); QL; Northern Goshawk
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2164/4816; https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12310

© 2014 The Authors. Journal of Animal Ecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society. Acknowledgements: Thanks to J. Reid, S. Redpath, A. Beckerman and an anonymous reviewer for their helpful comments on a previous version of the manuscript. This work was 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 Limited. Forest Research funded all the fieldwork on goshawks, tawny owls and field voles during 1973–1996. We thank B. Little, P. Hotchin, D. Anderson and all field assistants for their help with data collection and Forest Enterprise, T. Dearnley and N. Geddes for allowing and facilitating work in Kielder Forest. In addition, we are grateful to English Nature and the BTO for kindly issuing licences annually visit goshawk nest sites. Data accessibility: All data associated with the study which have not already been given in the text are available from the Dryad Digital Repository: http://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.h1289 (Hoy et al. 2014). Peer reviewed