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Within-guild dietary discrimination from 3-D textural analysis of tooth microwear in insectivorous mammals [PDF]
, 2013 Resource exploitation and competition for food are important selective pressures in animal evolution. A number of recent investigations have focused on linkages between diversification, trophic morphology and diet in bats, partly because their roosting ...
Crumpton, Nicholas +4 more
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An apparent trade-off between direct and signal-based induced indirect defence against herbivores in willow trees. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Signal-based induced indirect defence refers to herbivore-induced production of plant volatiles that attract carnivorous natural enemies of herbivores.
Kinuyo Yoneya +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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Determining trophic niche width: a novel approach using stable isotope analysis [PDF]
, 2004 1. Although conceptually robust, it has proven difficult to find practical measures of niche width that are simple to obtain, yet provide an adequate descriptor of the ecological position of the population examined. 2.
Adams, C.E. +4 more
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Prey size preference in the tokay gecko (Gekko gecko)
Behaviour, 2023 Abstract The optimal foraging theory posits that animals aim to maximize energy intake while minimizing predation and handling costs during foraging. Most observed animal behaviour supports this theory, but occasional deviations provide insights into the ecological factors that shape foraging decisions. We tested prey-size preference using a two-choice
Anja Probst, Eva Ringler, Birgit Szabo
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Frontiers in Zoology, 2022 Aeolid nudibranchs are well-known for their ability to incorporate cnidarian nematocysts and use them for defense; this process is tightly linked with the feeding preferences of molluscs.
Irina A. Ekimova +6 more
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Colour change and assortment in the western rainbowfish [PDF]
, 2010 Grouping behaviour is widespread across the animal kingdom, and is known to reduce an individual's risk of predation, for example through predator confusion.
Kelley, Jennifer L. +2 more
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First record of predation on a seed beetle (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) by a checkered beetle (Coleoptera: Cleridae) [PDF]
, 2013 A new relationship, that of predator and prey, between the coleopteran families Cleridae and Bruchidae is ...
Rifkind, Jacques +1 more
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Prey preference in a kleptoplastic dinoflagellate is linked to photosynthetic performance
The ISME Journal, 2023 Abstract Dinoflagellates of the family Kryptoperidiniaceae, known as “dinotoms”, possess diatom-derived endosymbionts and contain individuals at three successive evolutionary stages: a transiently maintained kleptoplastic stage; a stage containing multiple permanently maintained diatom endosymbionts; and a further permanent stage ...
Norico Yamada +11 more
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European Journal of Entomology, 2016 Prey preferences and feeding-related behaviour of two Central European species of Scydmaeninae, Cephennium majus and Cephennium ruthenum, were studied under laboratory conditions.
Paweł JAŁOSZYŃSKI +1 more
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