Unidirectional prey-predator facilitation: Apparent prey enhance predators' foraging success on cryptic prey

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 348-351

  Zhang, Yixin ^a,b   Richardson, John S ^b  

^a Texas State University San Marcos   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apparent and cryptic prey; Cutthroat trout; Trait mediated indirect interactions; Visual predator

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; FISH; FLY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; INSECT; LARVA; ONCORHYNCHUS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

DESPAXIA AUGUSTA; EPHEMEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; ONCORHYNCHUS CLARKII; PLECOPTERA; SALMONIDAE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CUES; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; INSECTS; LARVA; ONCORHYNCHUS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PIGMENTATION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 38449116418     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0087     Document Type: Article

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