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Behavioural responses to predation may explain shifts in community structure
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Behavioural responses to predation may explain shifts in community structure |
| Creator | Hammill, Edd Atwood, Trisha Brooke Corvalan, Paloma Srivastava, Diane S. |
| Description | Predators exert a strong selective force on the ecosystems in which they exist, thereby altering the structure of ecological communities and leading to the evolution of prey defences. However, how interspecific differences in defence ability affect habitat partitioning amongst competing prey species remains unresolved. We examined how prey defences affect species distribution in a natural ecosystem: the aquatic food web within Neotropical bromeliads. We first related differences in prey... |
| Date | 2015-09-30T07:00:00Z |
| Type | text |
| Identifier | https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/wats_facpub/978 info:doi/10.1111/fwb.12475 |
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| Source | Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications |
| Publisher | Hosted by Utah State University Libraries |
| Contributor | Wiley |
| Subject | Environmental Sciences |
