Article
Inducible offences affect predator-prey interactions and life-history plasticity in both predators and prey.
The Journal of animal ecology - 1 Jul 2014
Kishida Osamu, Costa Zacharia, Tezuka Ayumi, Michimae Hirofumi
Abstract excerpt
Phenotypic plasticity can have strong impacts on predator-prey interactions. Although much work has examined the effects of inducible defences, less understood is how inducible offences in predators affect predator-prey interactions and predator and prey phenotypes. Here, we examine the impacts of an inducible offence on the interactions and life histories of a cohort of predatory Hynobius retardatus salamander...
Topics
- Animals
- Food Chain
- Larva
- Metamorphosis, Biological
- Phenotype
- Predatory Behavior
- Ranidae
- Caudata
