Susceptibility to predation affects trait-mediated indirect interactions by reversing interspecific competition

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Mowles, Sophie L ^a,b   Rundle, Simon D ^a   Cotton, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARCINUS MAENAS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GASTROPOD; GIBBULA UMBILICALIS; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MOLLUSC; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SNAIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; BRACHYURA; CLASSIFICATION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

CARCINUS MAENAS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTROPODA; GIBBULA; GIBBULA UMBILICALIS; LITTORINA; LITTORINA LITTOREA; MOLLUSCA;

ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; GASTROPODA; MALE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 80051747061     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023068     Document Type: Article

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