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Carrying capacity of large African predators: predictions and tests
PaperBuilding on the prey-preference series, Hayward, O'Brien and Kerley developed regression models that predict the density a reserve can support for each large African predator from the available biomas…
Hayward, M.W., O'Brien, J. & Kerley, G.I.H. · Biological Conservation · 2007
Large predators and their prey: a predator's size determines its prey size range
PaperRadloff and Du Toit analyzed the southern African large-carnivore guild to show that a predator's body mass sets both the average and the upper limit of the prey sizes it takes. Larger predators such…
Radloff, F.G.T. & Du Toit, J.T. · Journal of Animal Ecology · 2004
Limitation of African wild dogs by competition with larger carnivores
PaperCreel and Creel demonstrated that African wild dog populations are limited not by prey scarcity but by competition with lions and spotted hyenas, which kill dogs and steal their kills. Analyzing demog…
Creel, S. & Creel, N.M. · Conservation Biology · 1996
Predator-prey size relationships in an African large-mammal food web
PaperOwen-Smith and Mills assembled a detailed predation web for Kruger National Park, quantifying which predators kill which prey and in what proportions across the size spectrum. They mapped how lion, le…
Owen-Smith, N. & Mills, M.G.L. · Journal of Animal Ecology · 2008
Prey preferences and dietary overlap amongst Africa's large predators
ReviewThis synthesis pulled together the individual prey-preference analyses for lion, leopard, cheetah, spotted hyena and wild dog to quantify dietary overlap across the African large-carnivore guild. By c…
Hayward, M.W. & Kerley, G.I.H. · South African Journal of Wildlife Research · 2008
Research overview: carrying-capacity models for African predators
OverviewAn overview of the quantitative tools used to predict how many large predators a reserve can sustain from its prey base, building on the prey-preference and prey-biomass approaches. These models estim…
Research overview: intraguild predation between felids and canids
OverviewA survey of the lethal interactions between cats and dogs that share prey and space, a major structuring force in carnivore communities. Lions and hyenas kill wild dogs and cheetahs; pumas and coyotes…
Research overview: kleptoparasitism among African large carnivores
OverviewA survey of the pervasive theft of kills within the African large-carnivore guild, where lions, spotted hyenas, leopards, cheetahs and wild dogs constantly contest carcasses. The direction and outcome…
The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey Relations
ReviewSchaller's monograph is the foundational field study of lion ecology and one of the most thorough predator-prey investigations ever conducted. Over years in the Serengeti, he documented lion social st…
Schaller, G.B. · University of Chicago Press · 1972
The lion king and the hyaena queen: large carnivore interactions and coexistence
ReviewPeriquet, Fritz and Revilla reviewed the full breadth of interactions between lions and spotted hyenas, the two dominant large carnivores of African savannas. They synthesized evidence on kleptoparasi…
Periquet, S., Fritz, H. & Revilla, E. · Biological Reviews · 2015