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SUBMITTER: Gehr B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5756843 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gehr Benedikt B Hofer Elizabeth J EJ Pewsner Mirjam M Ryser Andreas A Vimercati Eric E Vogt Kristina K Keller Lukas F LF
Ecology and evolution 20171123 1
Predator-prey theory predicts that in the presence of multiple types of predators using a common prey, predator facilitation may result as a consequence of contrasting prey defense mechanisms, where reducing the risk from one predator increases the risk from the other. While predator facilitation is well established in natural predator-prey systems, little attention has been paid to situations where human hunters compete with natural predators for the same prey. Here, we investigate hunting-medi ...[more]