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Will improving wastewater treatment impact shorebirds? Effects of sewage discharges on estuarine invertebrates and birds [PDF]

, 2012
Human communities often discharge wastewaters into estuaries, influencing their organic and pollutant loading, benthic community and trophic structure.
Ait Alla, Alves, Bartels-Hardege, Beukema, Burton, Burton, Campbell, Cardell, Delany, Dias, Dias, Diaz, Esselink, European Community, Gaston, Gaudêncio, Gill, Gillet, Gillet, Goss-Custard, Green, Gunnarsson, Gunnarsson, Jones, Leitão, Matthews, Moreira, Moreira, Mucha, Olivier, Pearson, Pounder, Raven, Reise, Saiz-Salinas, Saiz-Salinas, Savage, Scraps, Smith, Sola, Thrush, Van de Kam, Van Impe, Wear, Weston, Ysebaert   +45 more
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Attack behavior of Podisus rostralis (Heteroptera: Pentatomidade) adults on caterpillars of Bombyx mori (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae)

Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, 2005
Attack behavior of the predator Podisus rostralis (Stäl) (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) adults on fourth instar Bombyx mori L. (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae) caterpillars was studied in laboratory conditions.
Walkymário Paulo Lemos, José Cola Zanuncio, José Eduardo Serrão   +2 more
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Diagnostic PCR assays to unravel food web interactions in cereal crops with focus on biological control of aphids [PDF]

, 2015
Successful biological control of agricultural pests is dependent on a thorough understanding of the underlying trophic interactions between predators and prey.
Jonsson, Mattias, Staudacher, Karin, Traugott, Michael   +2 more
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Reproduction and longevity of Supputius cincticeps (Het.: Pentatomidae) fed with larvae of Zophobas confusa, Tenebrio molitor (Col.: Tenebrionidae) or Musca domestica (Dip.: Muscidae)

Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, 2005
Reproduction and longevity of Supputius cincticeps (Stål) (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) fed on Zophobas confusa Gebien, Tenebrio molitor L. (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) or Musca domestica (L.) (Diptera: Muscidae) larvae were studied during two generations ...
José Cola Zanuncio, Eduardo Barbosa Beserra, Adrián José Molina-Rugama, Teresinha Vinha Zanuncio, Tobias Baruc Moreira Pinon, Vanessa Pataro Maffia   +5 more
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Mathematical Modelling of Predatory Prokaryotes [PDF]

, 2006
Predator–prey models have a long history in mathematical modelling of ecosystem dynamics and evolution. In this chapter an introduction to the methodology of mathematical modelling is given, with emphasis on microbial predator–prey systems, followed by a
Wilkinson, Michael H.F.
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Numbers, neighbors, and hungry predators: What makes chemically defended aposematic prey susceptible to predation?

Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Many chemically defended aposematic species are characterized by relatively low toxin levels, which enables predators to include them in their diets under certain circumstances.
Jan M. Kaczmarek, Mikołaj Kaczmarski, Jan Mazurkiewicz, Janusz Kloskowski   +3 more
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Prey switching with a linear preference trade-off [PDF]

, 2013
In ecology, prey switching refers to a predator's adaptive change of habitat or diet in response to prey abundance. In this paper, we study piecewise-smooth models of predator-prey interactions with a linear trade-off in a predator's prey preference.
Maini, P. K., Piltz, S, Porter, M A
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The two spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae (Acari: Tetranychidae), alternative prey for the lacewing Dichochrysa prasina (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae)

European Journal of Entomology, 2008
The predatory lacewing Dichochrysa prasina Burmeister can feed and reproduce on various aphid species. However, other species such as the two spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae Koch may serve as an alternative prey for this predator in the field in ...
Maria L. PAPPAS, Georgios D. BROUFAS, Dimitris S. KOVEOS   +2 more
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Predator discrimination of prey promotes the predator-mediated coexistence of prey species

Royal Society Open Science, 2022
The predator discrimination of prey can affect predation intensity and the prey density dependence of predators, which has the potential to alter the coexistence of prey species.
Gen Iwashita, Akira Yamawo, Michio Kondoh   +2 more
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Optimal-foraging predator favors commensalistic Batesian mimicry. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2008
BACKGROUND:Mimicry, in which one prey species (the Mimic) imitates the aposematic signals of another prey (the Model) to deceive their predators, has attracted the general interest of evolutionary biologists.
Atsushi Honma, Koh-ichi Takakura, Takayoshi Nishida   +2 more
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