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SUBMITTER: Suraci JP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4766389 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20160223
The fear large carnivores inspire, independent of their direct killing of prey, may itself cause cascading effects down food webs potentially critical for conserving ecosystem function, particularly by affecting large herbivores and mesocarnivores. However, the evidence of this has been repeatedly challenged because it remains experimentally untested. Here we show that experimentally manipulating fear itself in free-living mesocarnivore (raccoon) populations using month-long playbacks of large c ...[more]