Stability and persistence of food webs with omnivory: Is there a general pattern?

P Kratina, RM LeCraw, T Ingram, BR Anholt - Ecosphere, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The relationship between omnivory and stability has been the subject of a longstanding
debate in ecology. Early theory predicted that omnivory would decrease the probability of …

The effect of habitat structure on prey mortality depends on predator and prey microhabitat use

J Klecka, DS Boukal - Oecologia, 2014 - Springer
Structurally complex habitats provide cover and may hinder the movement of animals. In
predator–prey relationships, habitat structure can decrease predation risk when it provides …

Foraging plasticity favours adaptation to new habitats in fire salamanders

R Manenti, M Denoël, GF Ficetola - Animal Behaviour, 2013 - Elsevier
Highlights•Phenotypic plasticity is pivotal to exploit new environments.•We compared
foraging behaviour of salamander larvae from caves and streams.•Plasticity allows larvae to …

Anophthalmia and elongation of body appendages in cave scale worms (Annelida: Aphroditiformia)

BC Gonzalez, K Worsaae, D Fontaneto… - Zoologica …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This study addresses whether cave dwelling annelids exhibited similar reductive and
constructive traits equally as strong as those of arthropods and vertebrates inhabiting caves …

Coping with catastrophe: Foraging plasticity enables a benthic predator to survive in rapidly degrading coral reefs

R Karkarey, T Alcoverro, S Kumar, R Arthur - Animal Behaviour, 2017 - Elsevier
Human-induced rapid environmental change (HIREC) disproportionately affects species
with specialist traits and long generation times. By circumventing prolonged evolutionary …

Emergent effects of ground beetles size diversity on the strength of prey suppression

A Rouabah, F LASSERRE‐JOULIN… - Ecological …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Determining how multiple predators provide better prey suppression is a key step towards
developing conservation biological control strategies. While numerous previous studies …

Nonconsumptive predator-driven mortality causes natural selection on prey

AM Siepielski, J Wang, G Prince - Evolution, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Predators frequently exert natural selection through differential consumption of their prey.
However, predators may also cause prey mortality through nonconsumptive effects, which …

Cannibalism and activity rate in larval damselflies increase along a latitudinal gradient as a consequence of time constraints

S Sniegula, MJ Golab, F Johansson - BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2017 - Springer
Background Predation is ubiquitous in nature. One form of predation is cannibalism, which is
affected by many factors such as size structure and resource density. However, cannibalism …

Predation risk and habitat complexity modify intermediate predator feeding rates and energetic efficiencies in a tri‐trophic system

V Kolar, DS Boukal, A Sentis - Freshwater Biology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
To understand the effects of environmental changes on ecosystems, it is important to
determine the factors and mechanisms influencing the strength of species interactions in …

Heterogeneity in body size and habitat complexity influence community structure

SK Carter, D Vodopich, PW Crumrine - Journal of freshwater …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Food web studies commonly ignore individual variation within a population and variation in
the environment and assume these factors have insignificant effects on community dynamics …