Balancing the dilution and oddity effects: Decisions depend on body size [PDF]
, 2011 Background Grouping behaviour, common across the animal kingdom, is known to reduce an individual's risk of predation; particularly through dilution of individual risk and predator confusion (predator inability to single out an individual for attack ...
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Nest predation in Afrotropical forest fragments shaped by inverse edge effects, timing of nest initiation and vegetation structure [PDF]
, 2014 High levels of nest predation influence the population dynamics of many tropical birds, especially when deforestation alters nest predator communities. The consequences of tropical forest fragmentation on nest predation, however, remain poorly understood,
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Predators do not spill over from forest fragments to maize fields in a landscape mosaic in central Argentina [PDF]
, 2017 South America is undergoing a rapid and large scale conversion of natural habitats to cultivated land. Ecosystem services (ESs) still remain important but their level and sustainability are not known.
Ferrante, Marco +2 more
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The effect of temporally variable environmental stimuli and group size on emergence behavior [PDF]
, 2016 How animals trade-off food availability and predation threats is a strong determinant of animal activity and behavior; however, the majority of work on this topic has been on individual animals, despite the modulating effect the presence of conspecifics ...
Hansen, Matthew J. +2 more
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Consequences of temperature and temperature variability on swimming activity, group structure, and predation of endangered delta smelt [PDF]
, 2019 The effects of water temperature on individual and group movement behaviour in prey fish can affect ecological interactions such as competition and predation, but how variability in temperature influence fish behaviour is less understood.
Baxter, RD +7 more
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Secondary Predation on the Horsehair Worm \u3ci\u3eGordius Robustus\u3c/i\u3e (Nematomorpha: Gordiida) [PDF]
, 2018 The gut contents of a brown trout (Salmo trutta) included horsehair worms (Gordius robustus, Nematomorpha: Gordiida) emerging from a camel cricket (Ceuthophilus sp., Orthoptera: Gryllacrididae).
Cochran, Philip A
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Modelling the future of the Hawaiian honeycreeper : an ecological and epidemiological problem [PDF]
, 2012 The Hawaiian honeycreeper (Drepanididae) faces the threat of extinction; this is believed to be due primarily to predation from alien animals, endemic avian malaria (Plasmodium relictum) and climate change.
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Phenotypically Plastic Responses to Predation Risk Are Temperature Dependent [PDF]
, 2019 Predicting how organisms respond to climate change requires that we understand the temperature dependence of fitness in relevant ecological contexts (e.g., with or without predation risk).
Cressler, Clayton E. +3 more
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Predation risk reduces a female preference for heterospecific males in the green swordtail [PDF]
, 2016 The presence of a predator can result in the alteration, loss or reversal of a mating preference. Under predation risk, females often change their initial preference for conspicuous males, favouring less flashy males to reduce the risk of being detected ...
Alonzo, Suzanne H. +2 more
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Linking Snake Behavior to Nest Predation in a Midwestern Bird Community
, 2010 Nest predators can adversely affect the viability of songbird populations, and their impact is exacerbated in fragmented habitats. Despite substantial research on this predator-prey interaction, however, almost all of the focus has been on the birds ...
Brawn, Jeffrey D. +4 more
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