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Diversity, 2022 Golden Eagles are resident in Greece and known to feed mainly on tortoises when breeding. However, information on alternative prey is scarce, especially during the tortoise brumation, that roughly coincides with the eagles’ non-breeding season.
Lavrentis Sidiropoulos +5 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 Banker plant systems increase biological pest control by supporting populations of natural enemies, i.e., using non-pest arthropod species as alternative prey.
Jie Wang +8 more
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Spatiotemporal predictions of the alternative prey hypothesis: Predator habitat use during decreasing prey abundance [PDF]
, 2022 <p>The alternative prey hypothesis supposes that predators supported by a primary prey species will shift to consume alternative prey during a decrease in primary prey abundance.
Thompson, Daniel +8 more
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Alternative prey mediate intraguild predation in the open field
Pest Management Science, 2022 AbstractBACKGROUNDGeneralist predators that kill and eat other natural enemies can weaken biological control. However, pest suppression can be disrupted even if actual intraguild predation is infrequent, if predators reduce their foraging to lower their risk of being killed.
Gretchen B Snyder +10 more
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Alternative prey: a mechanism for elimination of bacterial species by protozoa [PDF]
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 1983 Antibiotic-resistant strains of Salmonella typhimurium and Klebsiella pneumoniae died readily after their addition to raw sewage, but they grew in sterilized sewage. The decline was not a result of abiotic stresses, and because the bacteria were able to survive in large numbers for at least 15 days in solutions containing no organic nutrients, it was ...
L M, Mallory +3 more
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Diversity, 2023 The White-tailed eagle, an apex predator, is currently recovering its populations across Europe and has already reached high numbers in many countries. This led to the saturation of eagles in optimal habitats and their encroachment on suboptimal ones. We
Paweł Mirski, Ervin Komar
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Insects, 2021 The stick tea thrip Dendrothrips minowai (Priesner) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) is a destructive pest in tea plantations in south and southwest China. To control this pest, a non-crop banker plant system was developed using a polyphagous predator Orius ...
Chang-Rong Zhang +7 more
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Response of pumas (Puma concolor) to migration of their primary prey in Patagonia.
PLoS ONE, 2017 Large-scale ungulate migrations result in changes in prey availability for top predators and, as a consequence, can alter predator behavior. Migration may include entire populations of prey species, but often prey populations exhibit partial migration ...
Maria L Gelin +5 more
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Experimental ingestion and clearance rates for copepod Paracartia grani nauplii on microalgal prey in unialgal and bialgal suspensions [PDF]
, 2017 Laboratory feeding experiments were conducted to study the functional response and prey size spectrum of the young naupliar stages of the calanoid copepod Paracartia grani Sars.
Enric Saiz (7996784) +3 more
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Impact of alternative prey on predator strategy and -state when defended prey are non-mimetic. [PDF]
, 2017 Effect of availability of alternative prey (fγ) on predator strategy (a, c, e) and stationary distribution of predator state (b, d, f) in the non-mimetic treatment. Results are shown for three values of availability of alternative prey (a, b) γ = 0.1, (c,
John Skelhorn (308287) +4 more
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