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ArticleEcology and evolution2024

Native prey, not landscape change or novel prey, drive cougar (

Millicent V Gaston, Andrew F Barnas, Rebecca M Smith, Sean Murray, Jason T Fisher

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Article in Ecology and evolution, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. A global assessment of large terrestrial carnivore kill rates.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025
    Pooled it
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Millicent V GastonSchool of Environmental Studies University of Victoria Victoria British Columbia Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0861-2402
Andrew F BarnasSchool of Environmental Studies University of Victoria Victoria British Columbia Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0990-4666
Rebecca M SmithSchool of Environmental Studies University of Victoria Victoria British Columbia Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3569-399X
Sean MurraySchool of Environmental Studies University of Victoria Victoria British Columbia Canada.
Jason T FisherSchool of Environmental Studies University of Victoria Victoria British Columbia Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9020-6509

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many large carnivores, despite widespread habitat alteration, are rebounding in parts of their former ranges after decades of persecution and exploitation. Cougars (

Indexed as

anthropogenic developmentborealcamera trapscarnivore recoverypredator–prey interactionsrange expansion

Identifiers

PMID38571804
PMCPMC10985369

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