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Differential Responses of the Ant Odontoponera transversa to Termite Chemical Signals: Evidence for Prey Preference [PDF]
InsectsPredators can exploit chemical signals of social insects to locate prey. Ants are considered as major predators of termites, and the interactions between them have been shaped by a long evolutionary history.
Xiao-Lan Wen +4 more
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Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control, 2018 The impact of host plant-aphid combination on the prey consumption and prey preference by adult ladybird, Menochilus sexmaculatus (Fabricius) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) was studied, using aphid-prey, Aphis craccivora (Koch) and Lipaphis erysimi (Kalt.),
Ahmad Pervez, Satish Chandra
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Convergence between a mosquito-eating predator's natural diet and its prey-choice behaviour [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 On the basis of 1115 records of Evarcha culicivora feeding in the field, we can characterize this East African jumping spider (Salticidae) as being distinctively stenophagic. We can also, on the basis of laboratory prey-choice experiments, characterize E.
Robert R. Jackson +2 more
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Preference and prey switching in a generalist predator attacking local and invasive alien pests. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Invasive pest species may strongly affect biotic interactions in agro-ecosystems. The ability of generalist predators to prey on new invasive pests may result in drastic changes in the population dynamics of local pest species owing to predator-mediated ...
Coline C Jaworski +4 more
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An objective approach to determining the weight ranges of prey preferred by and accessible to the five large African carnivores. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Broad-scale models describing predator prey preferences serve as useful departure points for understanding predator-prey interactions at finer scales.
Hayley S Clements +3 more
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Prey Switching with a Linear Preference Trade-Off [PDF]
SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 2014 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. We consider optimally foraging predators and derive a model for a 1 predator-2 prey interaction with a ...
Sofia H. Piltz +2 more
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A method to predict overall food preferences.
PLoS ONE, 2022 Most natural ecosystems contain animals feeding on many different types of food, but it is difficult to predict what will be eaten when food availabilities change. We present a method that estimates food preference over many study sites, even when number
Vilis O Nams, Matt W Hayward
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Prey morphology and predator sociality drive predator prey preferences [PDF]
Journal of Mammalogy, 2016 Predator prey preferences shape the dynamics of predator–prey assemblages. Understanding the determinants of a predator’s prey preferences is therefore important. Trends in prey preferences of the large African predators have been described at a species scale, limiting our ability to assess the influence of prey morphology (size and horns) and predator
Hayley S. Clements +2 more
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The Allometry of Prey Preferences
PLoS ONE, 2011 The distribution of weak and strong non-linear feeding interactions (i.e., functional responses) across the links of complex food webs is critically important for their stability. While empirical advances have unravelled constraints on single-prey functional responses, their validity in the context of complex food webs where most predators have ...
Kalinkat, Gregor +3 more
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Diet and prey preference of juvenile lemon sharks Negaprion brevirostris
Marine Ecology - Progress Series, 2010 Samuel H Gruber
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