Abstract Giant water bugs (Heteroptera: Belostomatidae) are aquatic predators of freshwater
habitats, and include ca. 150 species distributed throughout the world's subtropical and …

Experience is essential for many prey species that must learn about predation risk to survive
and reproduce. How prey incorporate information about predation risk via multiple learning …

Abstract The Cueva del Azufre in Tabasco, Mexico, is a nutrient-rich cave and its inhabitants
need to cope with high levels of dissolved hydrogen sulfide and extreme hypoxia. One of the …

A considerable body of the literature considers the potential impact of exotic predators on
native prey organisms, while comparatively, few studies have asked whether and how native …

Predators affect prey through direct consumption as well as by inducing prey to defensively
alter their phenotypes, including behavioral phenotypes, to maximize survival under …

We describe general biology of giant water bugs (Heteroptera, Belostomatidae), exclusive
paternal care (back-brooding behavior in Belostomatinae and emergent-brooding behavior …

The Black Hills, straddling the border between southwestern South Dakota and northeastern
Wyoming, represent an ecological" island" of mountainous terrain in the midst of the Great …

A considerable body of the literature considers the potential impact of exotic predators on
native prey organisms, while comparatively, few studies have asked whether and how native …

Natural selection should favor the most fit form of a trait and result in the loss of all other
forms, yet polymorphism, the existence of two or more forms of a trait in a population, is quite …

ABSTRACT The Platte River caddisfly, Ironoquia plattensis Alexander and Whiles, is a
mineral case forming limnephilid that is endemic to central Nebraska. At the type locality, I …