Unidirectional prey–predator facilitation: apparent prey enhance predators' foraging success on cryptic prey
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Unidirectional prey–predator facilitation: apparent prey enhance predators' foraging success on cryptic prey
Food availability can strongly affect predator-prey dynamics. When change in habitat condition reduces the availability of one prey type, predators often search for other prey, perhaps in a different habitat. Interactions between behavioural and morphological traits of different prey may influence foraging success of visual predators through trait-mediated indirect interactions (TMIIs), such as...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biology Letters
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1744-9561,1744-957X
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0087