Harvesting creates ecological traps: Consequences of invisible mortality risks in predator-prey metacommunities

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 281-293

  Abrams, Peter A ^a   Ruokolainen, Lasse ^a,d   Shuter, Brian J ^a,b   McCann, Kevin S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adaptive movement; Alternative states; Ecological traps; Extinction; Harvesting; Metacommunity; No take fisheries reserves; Predator prey dynamics; Protected area; Risk detection; Two patch model

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXTINCTION RISK; FITNESS; GROWTH RATE; HARVESTING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; METAPOPULATION; MORTALITY RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PROTECTED AREA; REFUGE; RESERVE DESIGN; TRAP (EQUIPMENT);

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISH; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FISHERIES; FISHES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84860235811     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0011.1     Document Type: Article

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