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Fear of the dark or dinner by moonlight? Reduced temporal partitioning among Africa's large carnivores.

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Africa is home to the last intact guild of large carnivores and thus provides the only opportunity to investigate mechanisms of coexistence among large predator species. Strong asymmetric dominance hierarchies typically characterize guilds of large carnivores; but despite this asymmetry, subdominant species may persist alongside their stronger counterparts through temporal partitioning of habitat and resources. In the African guild, the subdominant African wild dogs and cheetahs are routinely...

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10.1890/12-0017.1

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Plant Sciences
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Author
Journal:
Ecology
Volume:
93
Issue:
12
Pages:
2590-2599
Publication date:
2012-12-01
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ISSN:
0012-9658
Language:
English
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pubs:377528
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uuid:69b1b03c-8f91-4966-a891-8f5d60342179
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pubs:377528
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377528
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2013-11-16

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