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Is it safe to nest near conspicuous neighbours? Spatial patterns in predation risk associated with the density of American Golden-Plover nests [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 Predation is one of the main factors explaining nesting mortality in most bird species. Birds can avoid nest predation or reduce predation pressure by breeding at higher latitude, showing anti-predator behaviour, selecting nest sites protected from ...
Marie-Andrée Giroux +4 more
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Nonlinearity in the predation risk of prey mobility
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 2000 Odorous waste products such as urine and faeces are unavoidable for most animals and are widely exploited by predators and their prey. Consequently, waste accumulations can be risky and prey which increase their mobility in order to disperse and dilute their waste should avoid a high predation risk until this benefit is balanced by the increasing risks
P B, Banks, K, Norrdahl, E, Korpimäki
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Trade-offs between the risks of predation and starvation in subtropical granivorous finches [PDF]
, 2007 Animal community structures, life histories and individual foraging behaviour are all an outcome of a trade-off between competition for resources (and thus the risk of starvation) and survival (and thus the risk of predation).
Brandt, Miriam J.
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Characterizing juvenile salmon predation risk during early marine residence.
PLoS ONE, 2021 Predation mortality can influence the distribution and abundance of fish populations. While predation is often assessed using direct observations of prey consumption, potential predation can be predicted from co-occurring predator and prey densities ...
Elizabeth M Phillips +2 more
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Contrasting risks from different predators change the overall nonlethal effects of predation risk [PDF]
Behavioral Ecology, 2013 Prey are often at risk from multiple predator species with differing hunting modes, but the resulting response to the spatial variation in predation risk (the "landscape of fear") has rarely been considered in predator prey models. We tested whether attack frequency and hunting success along a habitat gradient (distance from an estuarine shoreline ...
Will Cresswell, John L. Quinn
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Limited influence of experimentally induced predation risk on granivory in a tropical forest [PDF]
, 2022 Seed predation by rodents can strongly influence plant recruitment and establishment. The extent to which predation risk indirectly alters plant survival in tropical forests via impacts on granivory is unclear, making it difficult to assess the cascading
Jedediah F. Brodie +2 more
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Ecosphere, 2021 Predation shapes communities through consumptive and non‐consumptive effects. In the latter case, prey respond to perceived predation risk through proactive or reactive risk management strategies occurring at different spatial and temporal scales.
Jeanne Clermont +7 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2019 The enemy‐free space hypothesis (EFSH) contends that generalist predators select for dietary specialization in insect herbivores. At a community level, the EFSH predicts that dietary specialization reduces predation risk, and this pattern has been found ...
Michael S. Singer +5 more
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Balancing the dilution and oddity effects: decisions depend on body size. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 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).
Gwendolen M Rodgers +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2019 Attempts to assess behavioral responses of prey to predation risk are often confounded by depredation of prey. Moreover, the scale at which the response of prey is assessed has important implications for discovering how predation risk alters prey ...
Lindsey N Messinger +3 more
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