scholarly journals Predator–prey interactions mediated by prey personality and predator hunting mode

2016 ◽  
Vol 283 (1828) ◽  
pp. 20160408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin A. Belgrad ◽  
Blaine D. Griffen
Keyword(s):  
Predator Avoidance ◽  
Community Dynamics ◽  
Interaction Strength ◽  
Avoidance Behaviour ◽  
Blue Crabs ◽  
Predator Species ◽  
Predator Prey ◽  
Hunting Mode ◽  
Predator Hunting Mode ◽  
Mud Crabs

Predator–prey interactions are important drivers in structuring ecological communities. However, despite widespread acknowledgement that individual behaviours and predator species regulate ecological processes, studies have yet to incorporate individual behavioural variations in a multipredator system. We quantified a prevalent predator avoidance behaviour to examine the simultaneous roles of prey personality and predator hunting mode in governing predator–prey interactions. Mud crabs, Panopeus herbstii , reduce their activity levels and increase their refuge use in the presence of predator cues. We measured mud crab mortality and consistent individual variations in the strength of this predator avoidance behaviour in the presence of predatory blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus , and toadfish, Opsanus tau . We found that prey personality and predator species significantly interacted to affect mortality with blue crabs primarily consuming bold mud crabs and toadfish preferentially selecting shy crabs. Additionally, the strength of the predator avoidance behaviour depended upon the predation risk from the predator species. Consequently, the personality composition of populations and predator hunting mode may be valuable predictors of both direct and indirect predator–prey interaction strength. These findings support theories postulating mechanisms for maintaining intraspecies diversity and have broad implications for community dynamics.

scholarly journals What drives interaction strengths in complex food webs? A test with feeding rates of a generalist stream predator

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel L. Preston ◽  
Jeremy S. Henderson ◽  
Landon P. Falke ◽  
Leah M. Segui ◽  
Tamara J. Layden ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Webs ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Prey Density ◽  
Scaling Laws ◽  
Community Dynamics ◽  
Abiotic Factors ◽  
Interaction Strength ◽  
Feeding Rates ◽  
Predator Prey ◽  
Mass Ratios

AbstractDescribing the mechanisms that drive variation in species interaction strengths is central to understanding, predicting, and managing community dynamics. Multiple factors have been linked to trophic interaction strength variation, including species densities, species traits, and abiotic factors. Yet most empirical tests of the relative roles of multiple mechanisms that drive variation have been limited to simplified experiments that may diverge from the dynamics of natural food webs. Here, we used a field-based observational approach to quantify the roles of prey density, predator density, predator-prey body-mass ratios, prey identity, and abiotic factors in driving variation in feeding rates of reticulate sculpin (Cottus perplexus). We combined data on over 6,000 predator-prey observations with prey identification time functions to estimate 289 prey-specific feeding rates at nine stream sites in Oregon. Feeding rates on 57 prey types showed an approximately log-normal distribution, with few strong and many weak interactions. Model selection indicated that prey density, followed by prey identity, were the two most important predictors of prey-specific sculpin feeding rates. Feeding rates showed a positive, accelerating relationship with prey density that was inconsistent with predator saturation predicted by current functional response models. Feeding rates also exhibited four orders-of-magnitude in variation across prey taxonomic orders, with the lowest feeding rates observed on prey with significant anti-predator defenses. Body-mass ratios were the third most important predictor variable, showing a hump-shaped relationship with the highest feeding rates at intermediate ratios. Sculpin density was negatively correlated with feeding rates, consistent with the presence of intraspecific predator interference. Our results highlight how multiple co-occurring drivers shape trophic interactions in nature and underscore ways in which simplified experiments or reliance on scaling laws alone may lead to biased inferences about the structure and dynamics of species-rich food webs.

PREDATOR HUNTING MODE AND HABITAT DOMAIN ALTER NONCONSUMPTIVE EFFECTS IN PREDATOR–PREY INTERACTIONS

Ecology ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 88 (11) ◽  
pp. 2744-2751 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evan L. Preisser ◽  
John L. Orrock ◽  
Oswald J. Schmitz
Keyword(s):  
Nonconsumptive Effects ◽  
Predator Prey ◽  
Hunting Mode ◽  
Habitat Domain ◽  
Predator Hunting Mode

scholarly journals Functional genomics study of Pseudomonas putida to determine traits associated with avoidance of a myxobacterial predator

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shukria Akbar ◽  
D. Cole Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Pseudomonas Putida ◽  
Bacterial Communities ◽  
Predator Avoidance ◽  
Phenotypic Diversity ◽  
Myxococcus Xanthus ◽  
Predator Prey ◽  
Mucoid Conversion ◽  
Small Colony ◽  
Predator Prey Models ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractPredation contributes to the structure and diversity of microbial communities. Predatory myxobacteria are ubiquitous to a variety of microbial habitats and capably consume a broad diversity of microbial prey. Predator–prey experiments utilizing myxobacteria have provided details into predatory mechanisms and features that facilitate consumption of prey. However, prey resistance to myxobacterial predation remains underexplored, and prey resistances have been observed exclusively from predator–prey experiments that included the model myxobacterium Myxococcus xanthus. Utilizing a predator–prey pairing that instead included the myxobacterium, Cystobacter ferrugineus, with Pseudomonas putida as prey, we observed surviving phenotypes capable of eluding predation. Comparative transcriptomics between P. putida unexposed to C. ferrugineus and the survivor phenotype suggested that increased expression of efflux pumps, genes associated with mucoid conversion, and various membrane features contribute to predator avoidance. Unique features observed from the survivor phenotype when compared to the parent P. putida include small colony variation, efflux-mediated antibiotic resistance, phenazine-1-carboxylic acid production, and increased mucoid conversion. These results demonstrate the utility of myxobacterial predator–prey models and provide insight into prey resistances in response to predatory stress that might contribute to the phenotypic diversity and structure of bacterial communities.

scholarly journals The Influence of Fear Effect to a Discrete-Time Predator-Prey System with Predator Has Other Food Resource

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 865
Author(s):  
Jialin Chen ◽  
Xiaqing He ◽  
Fengde Chen
Keyword(s):  
Discrete Time ◽  
Food Resource ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Iteration Scheme ◽  
Predator Species ◽  
Predator Prey ◽  
Interior Equilibrium ◽  
Fear Effect ◽  
Prey System ◽  
Trivial Equilibrium

A discrete-time predator–prey system incorporating fear effect of the prey with the predator has other food resource is proposed in this paper. The trivial equilibrium and the predator free equilibrium are both unstable. A set of sufficient conditions for the global attractivity of prey free equilibrium and interior equilibrium are established by using iteration scheme and the comparison principle of difference equations. Our study shows that due to the fear of predation, the prey species will be driven to extinction while the predator species tends to be stable since it has other food resource, i.e., the prey free equilibrium may be globally stable under some suitable conditions. Numeric simulations are provided to illustrate the feasibility of the main results.

scholarly journals Dynamical analysis of a predator-prey interaction model with time delay and prey refuge

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jai Prakash Tripathi ◽  
Swati Tyagi ◽  
Syed Abbas
Keyword(s):  
Hopf Bifurcation ◽  
Functional Differential Equations ◽  
Interaction Model ◽  
Dynamical Analysis ◽  
Prey Refuge ◽  
Normal Form Theory ◽  
Predator Species ◽  
Predator Prey ◽  
Center Manifold Theorem ◽  
Predator Prey Model

AbstractIn this paper, we study a predator-prey model with prey refuge and delay. We investigate the combined role of prey refuge and delay on the dynamical behaviour of the delayed system by incorporating discrete type gestation delay of predator. It is found that Hopf bifurcation occurs when the delay parameter τ crosses some critical value. In particular, it is shown that the conditions obtained for the Hopf bifurcation behaviour are sufficient but not necessary and the prey reserve is unable to stabilize the unstable interior equilibrium due to Hopf bifurcation. In particular, the direction and stability of bifurcating periodic solutions are determined by applying normal form theory and center manifold theorem for functional differential equations. Mathematically, we analyze the effect of increase or decrease of prey reserve on the equilibrium states of prey and predator species. At the end, we perform some numerical simulations to substantiate our analytical findings.

Predator avoidance behaviour of Baltic littoral mysids Neomysis integer and Praunus flexuosus

2003 ◽  
Vol 143 (5) ◽  
pp. 845-850 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Lind�n ◽  
M. Lehtiniemi ◽  
M. Viitasalo
Keyword(s):  
Predator Avoidance ◽  
Avoidance Behaviour ◽  
Neomysis Integer
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