Top predators--Ecology
Spatial ecology of marine top predators
... spatial ecology, which often use continuous data with spatial autocorrelation and uncertainty around the mean estimate in each grid cell of the underlying maps being ...In ecology, maps of predicted ...
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Spatial Ecology and Conservation of Predators in Fragmented Landscapes.
... that predators need to build energy reserves to survive periods of food limitation and invest in reproduction (Jensen, Mayntz, Wang, Simpson, & Overgaard, 2010; ...
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Spatial ecology of mobile predators in a nearshore tropical environment and its implication for marine protected areas
... spatial ecology of sharks within a nearshore tropical environment to (1) provide a better understanding of the factors influencing species distribution, habitat use and movement patterns and (2) evaluate the ...
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Spatial ecology of mobile predators in a nearshore tropical environment and its implication for marine protected areas
... nursery area use. In Hawaii, juvenile Galapagos sharks Carcharhinus galapagensis do not use shallow nursery areas, and were reported to occur at greater depths than sub-adult and adult female individuals (Wetherbee et ...
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Examining the response of top marine predators to ecological change using stable isotope proxies
... marine ecology; but lethally sampling multiple tissues from wild Atlantic salmon in many consecutive years is not feasible because of the cost and the effects upon the salmon ...
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Recruitment hotspots in the ecology and management of large predatory fishes on coral reefs
... Live branching corals represent an important habitat for many small, site attached fishes (e.g. Jones 1988; Ault and Johnson 1998; Holbrook et al. 2000). They are also fundamental to the recruitment and/or survival of a ...
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Diet reconstruction and niche of Lake Ontario top predators and corresponding prey species
... population. The most recent invading forage fish, the Round Goby (Neogobius melanostomus), first sighted in western Lake Ontario in 1998, have become highly abundant in benthic habitats of the littoral and offshore ...
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Pelagic cephalopods of the central Mediterranean Sea determined by the analysis of the stomach content of large fish predators
... large predators were performed to assess the occurrence and distribution of cephalopods in the Central Mediterranean Sea (southern Tyrrhenian Sea and Strait of ...different ecology and feeding strategy were ...
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An investigation of the factors regulating house mouse (Mus musculus) and ship rat (Rattus rattus) population dynamics in forest ecosystems at Lake Waikaremoana, New Zealand : a thesis presented in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Ecology at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
... of predators on treatment and non-treatment areas, and by recruitment rates of the threatened northern brown kiwi (Apteryx australis mantelli) ...) Predators cannot prevent a population eruption due to time ...
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Visual field shape and foraging ecology in diurnal raptors
... ground predators may have adapted enlarged brows to avoid sun ...aerial/aquatic predators benefit from a narrow blind area over the head, enabling them to search for prey that move in three dimensions, ...
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Analysis of adaptive foraging in an intraguild predation system
... low, top predators may never encoun- ter intermediate ...when top predators cannot reproduce sufficiently only from basal ...intermediate predators increasing their foraging effort when ...
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Living in a fluid dynamical landscape : how do marine predators respond to turbulence?
... Marine predators play a fundamental role in mantaining the function of marine ecosys- tems and they are sentinels of the their ecosystem ...marine predators habitat by affect- ing their movement, their ...
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Top-down and bottom-up effects on Collembola communities in soil food webs
... or top-down and bottom-up forces may interact to exacerbate change on soil ...both top-down and bottom-up pressures, both as single factors (Chapter 2) and combined treatment interactions (Chapter ...
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Aquatic insect predators and mosquito control
... insect predators in mosquito control has been exploited in a limited fashion and there is much room for further investigation and ...aquatic predators), and Hemiptera (primarily surface ...these ...
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Recruitment of reviewers is becoming harder at some journals: a test of the influence of reviewer fatigue at six journals in ecology and evolution
... in Ecology and Evolu- tion), plus a third journal examined by Albert et ...(Molecular Ecology), have not experienced a similar decline, are ...review—Functional Ecology, Journal of Ecology, ...
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Competition between the Two Species using the Predator Prey Model
... a predators capacity to kill specific prey, whilst comparable constrains on prey outline which predators pose a danger to ...with predators now extinct ...
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Ecology in health: Beyond medical ecology
... Medical Ecology, because it is latent that the organism human being when becomes ill only denotes the breakdown of their equilibrium with the ecosystem, be it on a psychological, environmental, economic or even ...
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Trends in Arrests of "Online Predators".
... These trends were extensions of de‐ clines in sex crimes against minors un‐ derway since the early 1990s that have continued through 2006. The magni‐ tude of these declines since the early 1990s has been quite large. For ...
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Laws in ecology: diverse modes of explanation for a holistic science?
... © 2017 by the Joint Publication Board of Zygon. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Gunton, R. and Gilbert, F. (2017), LAWS IN ECOLOGY: DIVERSE MODES OF EXPLANATION FOR A HOLISTIC SCIENCE. ...
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Top predators constrain mesopredator distributions
... of top predators 24 , and suggests further that top predators can suppress mesopredator populations, even to the point of complete exclusion, as demonstrated in smaller scale studies 25 ...a ...
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