Restricting Prey Dispersal Can Overestimate the Importance of Predation in Trophic Cascades

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Geraldi, Nathan R ^a,c   Macreadie, Peter I ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c SOUTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CRAB; DENSITY MEDIATED INDIRECT EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISH; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD INTAKE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MESOCOSM; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREDATION; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SURVIVAL PREDICTION; TRAIT MEDIATED INDIRECT EFFECT; TROPHIC CASCADE;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84873575615     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055100     Document Type: Article

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