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dc.contributor.authorFrank, Shane C.
dc.contributor.authorBlaalid, Rakel
dc.contributor.authorMayer, Martin
dc.contributor.authorZedrosser, Andreas
dc.contributor.authorSteyaert, Sam
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-22T09:20:29Z
dc.date.available2020-12-22T09:20:29Z
dc.date.created2020-10-30T11:09:23Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.citationFrank, S. C., Blaalid, R., Mayer, M., Zedrosser, A., & Steyaert, S. M. J. G. (2020). Fear the reaper: ungulate carcasses may generate an ephemeral landscape of fear for rodents. Royal Society Open Science, 7(6), 191644.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2054-5703
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2720709
dc.description.abstractAnimal carcasses provide an ephemeral pulse of nutrients for scavengers that use them. Carcass sites can increase species interactions and/or ephemeral, localized landscapes of fear for prey within the vicinity. Few studies have applied the landscape of fear to carcasses. Here, we use a mass die-off of reindeer caused by lightning in Norway to test whether rodents avoided larger scavengers (e.g. corvids and fox). We used the presence and abundance of faeces as a proxy for carcass use over the course of 2 years and found that rodents showed the strongest avoidance towards changes in raven abundance (β = −0.469, s.e. = 0.231, p-value = 0.0429), but not fox, presumably due to greater predation risk imposed by large droves of raven. Moreover, the emergence of rodent occurrence within the carcass area corresponded well with the disappearance of raven during the second year of the study. We suggest that carcasses have the potential to shape the landscape of fear for prey, but that the overall effects of carcasses on individual fitness and populations of species ultimately depend on the carcass regime, e.g. carcass size, count, and areal extent, frequency and the scavenger guild. We discuss conservation implications and how carcass provisioning and landscapes of fear could be potentially used to manage populations and ecosystems, but that there is a gap in understanding that must first be bridged.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleFear the reaper: ungulate carcasses may generate an ephemeral landscape of fear for rodentsen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holder© 2020 The Authors.en_US
dc.source.volume7en_US
dc.source.journalRoyal Society Open Scienceen_US
dc.source.issue6en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191644
dc.identifier.cristin1843556
dc.relation.projectAndre: National Geographic Societyen_US
dc.source.articlenumber191644.en_US
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