Is there any research on wolf and bobcat interactions?

Question

I'm studying interactions between North American predators, specifically wolves, coyotes and bobcats. There's evidence from data I've collected from game cameras that suggests a significant interaction between wolves and bobcats. However, I haven't found published literature or reports on interactions between these two carnivores besides a paper by Stenlund (1955) that suggests bobcats may benefit from scavenging wolf kills. Does anyone know of any publications in peer-reviewed literature, government reports or even reliable observations from biologists in the field on interactions between wolves and bobcats? Thank you!

Answer 1

Answer: see this paper https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.8542

Advice: I suggest using Web of Science and boolean searching for all of your literature searches. It took me less than a minute to find this very relevant paper from last year (2022). You probably have access to Web of Science through your institution. If not, it's relatively affordable.

If you could only find the 1955 paper, and you've looked through the literature (boolean searches, using Web of Science or Google Scholar, which will give you more results, many irrelevant) and found nothing, then the best thing to do would be to contact the author of the 1955 paper if they're still around. If theirs is the first name on the citation, it's likely that it was written by a graduate student. Professors and P.I.s are usually just as approachable as students, and often thrive when answering questions. There's a great feature on Web of Science to the right called Citation Network. If there are papers that have cited your 1955 paper, they will probably be relevant. Click on that and you'll have more recent papers.