{"id":31,"date":"2015-10-18T23:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-11-09T21:10:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T21:10:23","slug":"peter-knamiller","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/merrill\/peter-knamiller\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Knamiller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/merrill\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/10\/peter.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-867 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/merrill\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/10\/peter.png\" alt=\"peter\" width=\"371\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a>Seasonal wolf predation in a multi-prey system in west-central Alberta<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Estimating annual wolf kill rates and composition is important for assessing the impact of wolves on their prey and managing wolf-ungulate dynamics. Most studies have focused on kill rates of wolves in winter or single-ungulate dominated systems. I used high intensity GPS tracking combined with scat analysis to explored intra- and inter-seasonal variations in kill rates and prey composition of wolves in a multi-prey ungulate population. I found wolves in summer selected for neonate prey of all species with deer comprising the greatest proportion of both adult and neonate prey. Summer kill rates (0.21 ungulates\/ adult wolf\/day) were among the highest (~1.5-2.5 times) reported in the literature and were 2.5 times higher than winter rates (0.08+0.02), when wolves killed a greater diversity of predominately adult prey. Summer biomass consumption rates (4.22+0.36 kg\/adult equivalent wolf\/day) were lower than in winter (7.93+4.08), when wolves were less food limited. Seasonal differences in kill rates would have lead to significant underestimates (~29%) of annual kill rates when based on winter information only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seasonal wolf predation in a multi-prey system in west-central Alberta Estimating annual wolf kill rates and composition is important for assessing the impact of wolves on their prey and managing wolf-ungulate dynamics. Most studies have focused on kill rates of wolves in winter or single-ungulate dominated systems. I used high intensity GPS tracking combined with &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/merrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/merrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/merrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/merrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/merrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/merrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/merrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/merrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}