Ecology of Predator-Prey Interactions
1st Edition
Published on 11. August 2005
413 pages
978-0-19-987454-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book addresses the fundamental issues of predator-prey interactions, with an emphasis on predation among arthropods, which have been better studied, and for which the database is more extensive than for the large and rare vertebrate predators. The book should appeal to ecologists interested in the broad issue of predation effects on communities.
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Pedro Barbosa | Ignacio Castellanos
Ecology of Predator-Prey Interactions
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08/2005
Oxford University Press Inc
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Contributors
- PART I: The Nature of Predation and Predator-Prey Interactions
- 1 Predaceous Herbivores and Herbivorous Predators: The Biology of Omnivores and the Ecology of Omnivore-Prey Interactions
- 2 Mutualisms as Consumer-Resource Interactions
- 3 Learning as an Adaptive Response to Predation
- 4 Patterns of Inheritance of Foraging Traits in Predators
- PART II: Sensory, Physiological, and Behavioral Perspectives
- 5 Acoustic Interactions between Insects and Bats: A Model for the Interplay of Neural and Ecological Specializations
- 6 The Visual Ecology of Predator-Prey Interactions
- 7 The Production and Appropriation of Chemical Signals among Plants, Herbivores, and Predators
- 8 Perception of Predation Risk: The Foundation of Nonlethal Predator-Prey Interactions
- 9 Constraints on Inducible Defenses: Phylogeny, Ontogeny, and Phenotypic Trade-Offs
- PART III: Population- and Community-Level Interactions
- 10 Direct and Indirect Effects of Vegetation Structure and Habitat Complexity on Predator-Prey and Predator-Predator Interactions
- 11 Predator-Prey Space Use as an Emergent Outcome of a Behavioral Response Race
- 12 Behavior of Predators and Prey and Links with Population-Level Processes
- 13 The Consequences of Predator and Prey Adaptations for Top-Down and Bottom-Up Effects
- PART IV: Applied Consequences of Predator-Prey Interactions
- 14 Top-Down Forces in Managed versus Unmanaged Habitats
- 15 Conservation Biological Control: Biodiversity Influences the Effectiveness of Predators
- 16 Species Abundance Distribution and Predator-Prey Interactions: Theoretical and Applied Consequences
- 17 Plight of Predators: The Importance of Carnivores for Understanding Patterns of Biodiversity and Extinction Risk
- Index
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