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Título: | Functional responses to changes in rabbit abundance: is the eagle owl a generalist or a specialist predator? |
Autor: | Tobajas, Jorge CSIC ORCID; Fernández-de-Simón, Javier; Díaz-Ruiz, Francisco CSIC ORCID; Villafuerte, Rafael CSIC ORCID; Ferreras, Pablo CSIC ORCID | Palabras clave: | Oryctolagus cuniculus Bubo bubo Predator-prey relationships Alternative prey Feeding behaviour Diet analysis |
Fecha de publicación: | 2016 | Editor: | Springer Nature | Citación: | European Journal of Wildlife Research 62(1): 85-92 (2016) | Resumen: | How foraging behaviour of predators is influenced by prey abundance is often not clear. Predators may behave as generalist or specialist depending on the relationship between the predator feeding behaviour and prey abundance, known as functional response. The European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) is a key species for most Iberian vertebrate predators, especially for large raptors such as the eagle owl (Bubo bubo). The eagle owl functional response was analysed in central Iberian Peninsula by fitting different models (null, linear, two asymptotic and two sigmoidal models) between rabbit abundance and rabbit consumption by the eagle owl. Rabbit consumption increased as did its abundance until reaching an asymptote. Rabbit-consumed biomass better fitted to a type II functional response (convex, typical of specialist predators), whereas rabbit frequency in eagle owl diet better fitted to a type III functional response (sigmoidal, typical of generalist predators). Trophic diversity increased as rabbit abundance decreased. The consumption of other prey, such as Iberian hare (Lepus granatensis) and medium-size birds (mainly galliformes and columbiformes), increased as rabbit abundance decreased. The eagle owl is highly dependent on rabbits in central Spain, even at low rabbit abundance. In this situation, the eagle owl diversifies its diet, making it difficult to define the eagle owl as a specialist or as a generalist predator. Therefore, the eagle owl in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula should be rather considered as a facultative predator on wild rabbits. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/173970 | DOI: | 10.1007/s10344-015-0976-7 | Identificadores: | doi: 10.1007/s10344-015-0976-7 issn: 1612-4642 e-issn: 1439-0574 |
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