Landscape of fear influences the relative importance of consumptive and nonconsumptive predator effects

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2258-2266

  Matassa, Catherine M ^a   Trussell, Geoffrey C ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carcinus maenas; Consumptive effect; Nonconsumptive effect; Nucella lapillus; Predation risk; Semibalanus balanoides; Trait mediated indirect interaction; Trophic cascade

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CRAB; FOOD CHAIN; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GASTROPOD; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LANDSCAPE; PREDATION RISK; PREY AVAILABILITY; SNAIL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TROPHIC CASCADE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRACHYURA; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GASTROPOD; PREDATION; THORACICA;

ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GASTROPODA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; THORACICA;

CARCINUS MAENAS; NUCELLA; NUCELLA LAPILLUS; SEMIBALANUS BALANOIDES; THORACICA;

EID: 84555195607     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0424.1     Document Type: Article

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