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Influence of nutrition on the habitat selection of the Ronald Lake wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) herd
DownloadFall 2022
Acquiring food is a key component of what it means to be an animal. A significant portion of any animal’s life is spent locating, acquiring, consuming, and digesting food. Nearly every aspect of their life is influenced by it. The nutritional quality varies depending on foraging strategy and is a...
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The role of forage quantity and quality in the migration and diet of a northern ungulate during their neonatal period
DownloadFall 2024
Migration has evolved as a strategy to maximize survival and reproductive success, driven by the search for better resources and predator avoidance. For ungulates at high latitudes, the search for higher quality and more abundant forage has been proposed as one of the best explanations of...
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Window of opportunity: examining gray wolf (Canis lupus) diets and seasonal patterns of predation on wood bison (Bison bison athabascae)
DownloadFall 2023
Prey selection by predators is a complex process, with acquisition strategies varying between generalists and specialists. However, generalist predators like wolves (Canis lupus Linnaeus, 1758), can select prey in response to increases in abundance or vulnerability of the prey, often influenced...