Alien predators are more dangerous than native predators to prey populations
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Alien predators are more dangerous than native predators to prey populations.
Alien predators are widely considered to be more harmful to prey populations than native predators. To evaluate this expectation, we conducted a meta-analysis of the responses of vertebrate prey in 45 replicated and 35 unreplicated field experiments in which the population densities of mammalian and avian predators had been manipulated. Our results showed that predator origin (native versus ali...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.0444