Predator avoidance
Effects of elevated CO2 on predator avoidance behaviour by reef fishes is not altered by experimental test water
... to predator odour (Dixson, Munday & Jones, 2010; Munday et ...of predator avoidance, by showing that the type of water used in the test arena does not affect vital components of the escape ...
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Loss of live coral compromises predator-avoidance behaviour in coral reef damselfish
... the predator-avoidance behaviour of a common reef damselfish, Pomacentrus moluccensis, is affected by either the loss of coral tissue following the death of its host or the longer term loss of shelter space ...
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Flicker is part of a multi cue response criterion in fiddler crab predator avoidance
... Five sets of experiments were performed to test the influence of flicker on the predator avoidance decisions of fiddler crabs. First, the crabs’ response distances to a black and a flickering dummy ...
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The spectral and temporal properties of fiddler crab photoreceptors in the context of predator avoidance
... fast predator avoidance movement is discussed in subsequent chapters, including their run home response (chapter 4) and burrow descent response (chapter ...
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Sampling Visual Space: Topography, colour vision and visually guided predator avoidance in fiddler crabs (Uca vomeris)
... Many animals use vision to guide their behaviour and to collect relevant information about their environment. The diversity of visual environments and of visually guided tasks has led to a large variety of ...
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Plasticity of electric organ discharge waveform in the South African Bulldog fish, Marcusenius pongolensis: tradeoff between male attractiveness and predator avoidance?
... An increase in EOD duration was experimentally evoked in two different ways: by exchanging the familiar neighbours of experimental subjects for stranger males that were separated by plas[r] ...
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Localization and electrical activity of the distance chemoreceptors that mediate predator avoidance behaviour in Acmaea limatula and Acmaea scutum (gastropoda, prosobranchia)
... Afferent activity in the pallial nerve Stimulation of the mantle margin of Acmaea scutum with water that had flowed over the predatory starfish Pisaster ochraceus produced an increase in[r] ...
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Evidence that the house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) uses scent to avoid omnivore mammals
... Recent predator-diet discrimination may be advanta- geous to prey species whenever the predators are either stenophagic specialist species or have become specialised through learning ...generalist predator, ...
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Brown et al. 2014. Behav Ecol. Sociobiol.
... of predator avoidance response proportional to the degree of perceived predation risk (Helfman and Winkelman 1997; Brown et ...successful predator avoid- ance and their need to forage, court and/or ...
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Chemosensory reception, behavioral expression, and ecological interactions at multiple trophic levels
... The TTX-mediated predator-avoidance reaction of newt larvae is notably absent when adults are eating alternative prey (worms) (Kerby and Kats, 1998). In this case, larval hiding behavior is suppressed by ...
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Brown et al. 2014 Anim Cogn
... Abstract Within aquatic ecosystems, chemosensory cues provide valuable public information regarding the form and degree of risk, allowing prey to make informed behavioural decisions. Such cues, however, may vary in both ...
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Ferrai and Chivers 2013 Anim Cog
... novel predator as a high threat or low ...to predator cues on day 3, the ‘low–low’ group displayed a weak response to the predator, while the ‘high–high’ group displayed a strong antipredator ...the ...
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Application of inequalities technique to dynamics analysis of a stochastic eco epidemiology model
... infected predator-prey system with Beddington-DeAngelis has not gone very far ...deterministic predator-prey model, this paper investigates the stationary distribution and ergodic property of a stochastic ...
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Causes of exotic bird establishment across oceanic islands
... Number of exotic mammal species. In most places, level of predation is difficult to assess as it derives from a variety of sources. However, oceanic islands were in most cases largely predator-free before human ...
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Backward bifurcation of predator–prey model with anti predator behaviors
... the predator–prey system through autonomous models [18, 19], periodical models [20–22], delay differential equa- tions [23–25] and partial differential equations ...for predator [27–31] or for both ...
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Study of predator switching in an eco-epidemiological model with disease in the prey
... a predator from one of its prey effected by the amount of food taken from the other prey species, consequently we will use the following modified switching functions, which are give by ...
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2nd International Neuroscience Stress and Behavior Summer School
... acute predator exposure has been established as an anxiogenic paradigm in zebrafish, chronic exposure was a novel experiment yielding significant ...acute predator exposure test (provoking a protective ...
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Stability analysis of a fractional order prey-predator system with nonmonotonic functional response
... as predator or prey, there is some- times no obvious winner as prey can sometimes inflict harm on their predators, which indicates that cyclic dominance is also important for predator-prey ...between ...
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Bifurcation Analysis of Prey-Predator Model with Harvested Predator
... The prey-predator systems have been discussed widely in the many decades. In the literature many studies considered the prey-predator with functional responses. However, considerable evidence that some prey ...
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A PREDATOR-PREY MODEL WITH STRONG ALLEE EFFECT IN THE PREY AND AN ALTERNATIVE FOOD SOURCE FOR THE PREDATOR
... model in the history of theoretical ecology was developed independently by Alfred James Lotka (a US physical chemist) and Vito Volterra (an Italian mathematician) [25, 42]. Subsequently, this model has been used as a ...
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