Disentangling the roles of bottom‐up and top‐down drivers in the trade‐off between food acquisition and safety in prey with multiple predators
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DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13710
Abstract: 1. Prey face a trade-off between acquiring food and avoiding predation, but food availability, and therefore its effect, is rarely measured in field studies investigating non-lethal effects of predation. The main aim of this study… read more here.
Keywords: patch quality; vigilance; rate; bite rate ... See more keywords
Chronic spearfishing may indirectly affect reef health through reductions in parrotfish bite rates.
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DOI: 10.1111/jfb.13939
Abstract: The grazing behaviour of two Caribbean parrotfish, a fished species, the stoplight parrotfish Sparisoma viride and a non-fished species, the striped parrotfish Scarus iseri, were studied in the presence (fished site) and absence (marine reserve)… read more here.
Keywords: reserve; bite rates; bite; bite rate ... See more keywords