Food supplementation experiments with terrestrial vertebrates: patterns, problems, and the future

Sources, Sinks, and Population Regulation

1988 • 5,307 citations

Community Structure, Population Control, and Competition

1960 • 3,384 citations

The natural regulation of animal numbers

1972 • 3,088 citations

FOOD AS A LIMIT ON BREEDING BIRDS: A LIFE-HISTORY PERSPECTIVE

1987 • 1,407 citations

Bioenergetics and the Determination of Home Range Size

1963 • 1,222 citations

Home Range and Body Weight‐‐A Reevaluation

1979 • 979 citations

Territory and Breeding Density in the Great Tit, Parus Major L.

1971 • 733 citations

The importance of a relative shortage of food in animal ecology

1978 • 637 citations

Animal Populations in Relation to Their Food Resources.

1971 • 615 citations

Effects of Population Density and Supplemental Food on Reproduction in Song Sparrows

1988 • 517 citations

Food Chain Dynamics: The Central Theory of Ecology?

1987 • 399 citations

An Experimental Study of Dispersal in the California Ground Squirrel

1979 • 390 citations

Foraging-efficiency-predation-risk trade-off in the grey squirrel

1985 • 361 citations

Food Production and Competitor Density as the Determinants of Feeding Territory Size

1980 • 327 citations

Factors Controlling Tadpole Populations of the Chorus Frog (Pseudacris Triseriata) on Isle Royale, Michigan

1983 • 321 citations

Simple Models of Optimal Feeding-Territory Size: A Reconciliation

1983 • 308 citations

Central Place Foraging in Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris). I. Patch Residence Time

1984 • 300 citations

Experimental Manipulation of a Desert Rodent Community: Food Addition and Species Removal

1985 • 254 citations

Ecology and behavior of food-enhanced primate groups

1988 • 253 citations

Winter Mortality and Food Supply in Tits Parus spp.

1981 • 251 citations

Food Distribution and a Variable Mating System in the Dunnock, Prunella modularis

1984 • 249 citations

ANNUAL VARIATION OF SURVIVAL ADVANTAGE OF LARGE JUVENILE SIDE‐BLOTCHED LIZARDS,UTA STANSBURIANA: ITS CAUSES AND EVOLUTIONARY SIGNIFICANCE

1984 • 243 citations

Exposure and time use in willow tit flocks: the cost of subordination

1987 • 241 citations

The Influence of Food Abundance on Territory Size in the Iguanid Lizard Sceloporus jarrovi

1975 • 221 citations

Responses in Spatial Organization and Behaviour to Manipulations of the Food Resource in the Vole Clethrionomys rufocanus

1987 • 220 citations

The Effect of Food and Predation on Breeding Density and Success, Clutch Size and Laying Date of the Crow (Corvus corone L.)

1974 • 208 citations

Territoriality and Mating System of California Voles

1986 • 199 citations

Effect of Additional Food on Reproductive Success in the Magpie (Pica pica)

1981 • 193 citations

Reproduction Studies on Penned White-Tailed Deer

1965 • 192 citations

Impacts of Supplemental Feeding on Survival Rates of Black‐Capped Chickadees

1988 • 191 citations

Winter foraging at carcasses by three sympatric corvids, with emphasis on recruitment by the raven, Corvus corax

1988 • 188 citations

The effects of density, food, and interspecific interference on home range size in Peromyscus leucopus and Peromyscus maniculatus

1985 • 185 citations

Are big mammals simply little mammals writ large?

1983 • 184 citations

Influence of Supplemental Feeding on a Vole Population

1978 • 184 citations

Small Rodent Food, Feeding and Population Dynamics: A Comparison between Granivorous and Herbivorous Species in Scandinavia

1971 • 184 citations

Influence of predation risk on diet selection: a simple example in the grey squirrel

1986 • 176 citations

Group foraging in wild brown hares: effects of resource distribution and social status

1985 • 174 citations

Population Biology of Snowshoe Hares. I. Demography of Food-Supplemented Populations in the Southern Yukon, 1976-84

1986 • 174 citations

Density‐Dependent Survival of Scatterhoarded Nuts: An Experimental Appoach

1984 • 174 citations

Demography and ecology of a declining snowshoe hare population.

1984 • 165 citations

Population Ecology of Feral House Mice

1967 • 163 citations

The influence of food on time budgets and timing of breeding of the Dunnock Prunella modularis

1985 • 158 citations

Territorial responses to energy manipulations in the Anna hummingbird

1978 • 157 citations

Effects of Supplemental Feeding on Timing of Breeding, Clutch-Size and Polygyny in Red-Winged Blackbirds Agelaius phoeniceus

1982 • 156 citations

Physical and Reproductive Characteristics of a Supplementally-Fed White-Tailed Deer Herd

1982 • 154 citations

CLUTCH SIZE AND LAYING DATE IN THE KESTREL FALCO TINNUNCULUS: EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTARY FOOD

1982 • 152 citations

Ecosystem Organization: Mutualism and Cybernetics or Plain Darwinian Struggle for Existence?

1988 • 137 citations

Growth Rate in Island and Mainland Anoline Lizards

1976 • 131 citations

Population Fluctuations of the Great Tit and Feeding Conditions in Winter

2002 • 130 citations

SEXUAL SELECTION AND BODY SIZE IN MALE RED‐WINGED BLACKBIRDS

1979 • 127 citations

A winter feeding experiment on an island Song Sparrow population

1980 • 124 citations

Natural Selection and Clutch Size in the European Starling

1977 • 117 citations

An Experimental Analysis of Social Spacing in Tamias Striatus

1982 • 114 citations

Winter Survival and Territory Acquisition in a Northern Population of Black-Capped Chickadees

1988 • 112 citations

Effects of extra food on Peromyscus and Clethrionomys populations in the southern Yukon

1981 • 110 citations

Proximate and Ultimate Roles of Food Amount in Regulating Egret Sibling Aggression

1987 • 104 citations

Resource Limitation in Populations of the California Vole

1984 • 104 citations

Population Biology of Snowshoe Hares. II. Interactions with Winter Food Plants

1988 • 103 citations

The Effect of Supplementary Food on a Population of Wood Mice (Apodemus sylvaticus)

1972 • 102 citations

Effects of Food Addition to Willow Tit Parus montanus and Crested Tit P. cristatus at the Time of Breeding

1980 • 101 citations

Predation, Cover, and Food Manipulations During a Spring Decline of Microtus townsendii

1983 • 101 citations

Field Populations of Deermice with Supplemental Food

1971 • 98 citations

Provisioning and the study of free-ranging primates: History, effects, and prospects

1989 • 97 citations

FOOD AS A CONTROL OF A POPULATION OF WHITE-FOOTED MICE, PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS NOVEBORACENSIS (FISCHER)

1959 • 94 citations

Territory Size and Population Density in Relation to Food Supply in the Nuthatch Sitta europaea (Aves)

1983 • 93 citations

A Microtus Population with Supplemental Food

1965 • 93 citations

The influence of food resources on life history in Columbian ground squirrels

1985 • 93 citations

The marginal value theorem: A quantitative test using load size variation in a central place forager, the Eastern chipmunk, Tamias striatus

1982 • 92 citations

The influence of food resources on population dynamics in Columbian ground squirrels

1985 • 89 citations

Scatterhoarding by territorial red squirrels: a test of the optimal density model

1987 • 88 citations

The influence of food availability on the white-footed mouse: populations in isolated woodlots

1978 • 87 citations

An Experimental Analysis of Mixed‐Species Flocking in Birds of Deciduous Woodland

1985 • 83 citations

Effects of Predation Hazard on Foraging "Constraints": Patch-Use Strategies in Grey Squirrels

1988 • 81 citations

Foraging, predation hazard and patch use in grey squirrels

1987 • 80 citations

Proximate causes of losses in a snowshoe hare population

1986 • 78 citations

Food Supplementation in a Tropical Mainland Anole, Norops Humilis: Effects on Individuals

1988 • 78 citations

Home range perturbations in Tamias striatus

1976 • 76 citations

Supplementary food and the winter dynamics of bank vole populations

1975 • 76 citations

Spatial organization of a desert rodent community: food addition and species removal

1987 • 75 citations

Urban Cat Populations Compared by Season, Subhabitat and Supplemental Feeding

1989 • 75 citations

Effect of late winter food addition on numbers and movements of snowshoe hares

1984 • 73 citations

Effects of Supplemental Food on a Microtus pennsylvanicus Population in Central Illinois

1983 • 72 citations

The Relationship between Food and Social Behavior in Juvenile Lizards (Anolis aeneus)

1981 • 69 citations

Demographic Response of Experimental Snowshoe Hare Populations to Overwinter Food Shortage

1981 • 67 citations

Food shortage for breeding Black-billed Magpies (Pica pica): an experiment using supplemental food

1987 • 63 citations

Supplementary Feeding of Young Puffins, Fratercula arctica

1978 • 61 citations

A Field Experiment to Examine the Effects of Food Quality and Population Density on Reproduction of Wild House Mice

1987 • 58 citations

Demographic Responses of a Chipmunk (Eutamias townsendii) Population with Supplemental Food

1983 • 56 citations

The effect of extra food and cover on declining populations of Microtus townsendii

1981 • 55 citations

Effects of resource depression on use of inexpensive and escalated aggressive behavior: experimental tests using Anna hummingbirds

1983 • 53 citations

Physiological Assessment of Deer Populations by Analysis of Urine in Snow

1989 • 53 citations

Food Supply and Egg Mass Variation in the European Coot

1984 • 53 citations

Test of a hypothesis of territory regulation in an insectivorous bird by experimentally increasing prey abundance

1980 • 53 citations

Effects of Variation in Food Quality on the Breeding Territoriality of the Male Anna's Hummingbird

1987 • 51 citations

The Influence of Food Supply on Local Density and Diversity of Sparrows

1987 • 51 citations

Population dynamics and regulation of the Douglas squirrel (Tamiasciurus douglasii) with supplemental food

1982 • 49 citations

Effect of Supplementary Food on Breeding in Woodland Rodents

1970 • 49 citations

Food and reproduction of wild house mice. 2. A field experiment to examine the effect of food availability and food quality on breeding in spring

1987 • 47 citations

Territory quality and territorial behavior in two sympatric species of hummingbirds

1987 • 46 citations

Small mammal community ecology

1978 • 44 citations

An Experimental Attempt to Produce a Mouse Plague

1970 • 44 citations

Breeding territory quality and agonistic behavior: effects of energy availability and intruder pressure in hummingbirds

1985 • 44 citations

The effect of increased food supply on the body growth rate and survival of bank voles in an island population

1986 • 43 citations

Response of Anolis Lizards to Food Supplementation in Nature

1974 • 42 citations

Egg Composition of American Coots in Relation to Habitat, Year, Laying Date, Clutch Size, and Supplemental Feeding

1991 • 41 citations

Changes in the flocking behaviour of wintering English titmice with time, weather and supplementary food

1987 • 38 citations

The Influence of Nectar Resources on Nesting Success and Movement Patterns of the Common Amakihi (Hemignathus virens)

1984 • 38 citations

Effects of Food Enrichment on Numbers and Spacing Behaviour of Red Grouse

1984 • 38 citations

Sex-Ratio Variation in Response to Interspecific Competition

1988 • 35 citations

FOOD RESOURCES, TERRITORY DENSITY AND REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS OF AN ISLAND SILVEREYE POPULATION ZOSTEROPS LATERALIS

1982 • 35 citations

A natural feeding experiment on a declining snowshoe hare population

1986 • 33 citations

Food Intake and Reproduction in Anolis acutus

1982 • 32 citations

Effects of Supplemental Food on the Breeding Biology of the Black-Billed Magpie

1988 • 30 citations

7. FOOD AVAILABILITY AND TERRITORIAL ESTABLISHMENT OF JUVENILE SCELOPORUS UNDULATUS

1983 • 30 citations

The effect of supplemental feeding on home range size and activity patterns in the lizard Uta stansburiana

1983 • 28 citations

Free-Watering a Wild Population of House-Mice--A Test of an Australian Hypothesis in California

1976 • 28 citations

Red Grouse Populations on Experimentally Treated and Untreated Irish Bog

1979 • 27 citations

Winter Feeding of Fox and Gray Squirrel Populations

1980 • 25 citations

Snowshoe Hare Population Response to Artificial High Densities

1976 • 24 citations

The effects and limits of territoriality on population regulation in grey red‐backed voles, Clethrionomys rufocanus bedfordiae

1991 • 24 citations

Experiments on Population Regulation in Two North American Parids

1979 • 24 citations

Maximum Fecundity in Supplementally-Fed Northern Michigan White-Tailed Deer

1987 • 19 citations

Supplemental Feeding: Possible Negative Effects on Black-Billed Magpies

1984 • 14 citations

The animal's point of view, animal welfare and some other related matters

1991 • 12 citations

Seasonal and developmental changes of reproductive organs of male ringed seals (Phoca hispida) in the Svalbard area

1991 • 7 citations

Toward positive animal welfare

1991 • 2 citations

Humans' use of animals: On the horns of a moral dilemma

1991 • 1 citations

On strangerism and speciesism

1991 • 1 citations

The pervasiveness of species bias

1991 • 1 citations

Assessing animal welfare: Design versus Performance criteria

1991 • 1 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations