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Fear of predators as an ecosystem service
2016-08-15
Abstract excerpt
The fear that predators instill in prey induces short-term anti-predator behaviours across every animal taxa that are beneficial in avoiding immediate death, but carry costs; one of the most well-established being that scared prey eat less. These findings, that animals stop eating to avoid being eaten under perceived predation risk, are not controversial. What is controversial is whether such fear effects can be l...
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- Literature Corpus work
- f8077b05-59e9-536a-b59b-f03e1297647d
- DOI
- 10.7287/peerj.preprints.2353v1