Understanding the food habits of mammalian carnivores is crucial for the comprehension of the role of apex-predators in maintaining healthy ecosystems. The puma is currently the most widespread top predator and the carnivore most frequently involved in conflicts with humans in the Americas. We analyzed puma diet in the South American temperate region, a vast area largely modified by humans, to assess the importance of native prey with respect to livestock and exotic species. We reviewed 18 studies published between 1991 and 2020 to which we added 19 feces of puma from a rangeland area of central Argentina. “Undetermined small rodent,” plains vizcacha, European hare, and wild boar were the most frequent species in the small area of the Argen...
Large-scale ungulate migrations result in changes in prey availability for top predators and, as a c...
Context. Hunting has demographic effects on large and medium carnivores, causing population reductio...
The feeding behaviour of the puma (Puma concolor) is a fundamental characteristic that guarantees i...
The puma Puma concolor is the most widespread top predator and one of the most controversial carnivo...
Top predators play an important role to preserving healthy and functional ecosystems. Predatory inte...
There is evidence for the ecological extinction of the native prey of the puma Puma concolor in nort...
El puma se encuentra actualmente entre los carnívoros más conflictivos de Argentina debido a la depr...
Sheep depredation by puma (Puma concolor) is a socio-environmental problem that has intensified in r...
Livestock predation is one of the major causes of conflicts between humans and pumas (Puma concolor)...
Throughout central Argentina the distribution of puma (Puma concolor) has substantially contracted a...
Assessments of the role that small (<500 km2) protected areas play in conservation of large carnivor...
Inspired by the early fieldwork of G. Haynes with large sized predators in wilderness areas, the fol...
The puma (Puma concolor) has the largest distribution of any mammal in the Americas, but has disappe...
Surplus killing (i.e. predation in which predators kill more prey than necessary to satiate their hu...
Large carnivores play critical roles in terrestrial ecosystems but have suffered dramatic range cont...
Large-scale ungulate migrations result in changes in prey availability for top predators and, as a c...
Context. Hunting has demographic effects on large and medium carnivores, causing population reductio...
The feeding behaviour of the puma (Puma concolor) is a fundamental characteristic that guarantees i...
The puma Puma concolor is the most widespread top predator and one of the most controversial carnivo...
Top predators play an important role to preserving healthy and functional ecosystems. Predatory inte...
There is evidence for the ecological extinction of the native prey of the puma Puma concolor in nort...
El puma se encuentra actualmente entre los carnívoros más conflictivos de Argentina debido a la depr...
Sheep depredation by puma (Puma concolor) is a socio-environmental problem that has intensified in r...
Livestock predation is one of the major causes of conflicts between humans and pumas (Puma concolor)...
Throughout central Argentina the distribution of puma (Puma concolor) has substantially contracted a...
Assessments of the role that small (<500 km2) protected areas play in conservation of large carnivor...
Inspired by the early fieldwork of G. Haynes with large sized predators in wilderness areas, the fol...
The puma (Puma concolor) has the largest distribution of any mammal in the Americas, but has disappe...
Surplus killing (i.e. predation in which predators kill more prey than necessary to satiate their hu...
Large carnivores play critical roles in terrestrial ecosystems but have suffered dramatic range cont...
Large-scale ungulate migrations result in changes in prey availability for top predators and, as a c...
Context. Hunting has demographic effects on large and medium carnivores, causing population reductio...
The feeding behaviour of the puma (Puma concolor) is a fundamental characteristic that guarantees i...