Digging into the behaviour of an active hunting predator: arctic fox prey caching events revealed by accelerometry.
Jeanne ClermontSasha Woodward-GagnéDominique BerteauxPublished in: Movement ecology (2021)
Accelerometry combined with GPS allowed us to track across space and time a critical foraging behaviour from a small active hunting predator, informing on spatio-temporal distribution of predation risk in an Arctic vertebrate community. Our study opens new possibilities for assessing the foraging behaviour of terrestrial predators, a key step to disentangle the subtle mechanisms structuring many predator-prey interactions and trophic networks.
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