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SUBMITTER: Gordon CE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4344160 | biostudies-other | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Gordon Christopher E CE Feit Anna A Grüber Jennifer J Letnic Mike M
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20150301 1802
Predators can impact their prey via consumptive effects that occur through direct killing, and via non-consumptive effects that arise when the behaviour and phenotypes of prey shift in response to the risk of predation. Although predators' consumptive effects can have cascading population-level effects on species at lower trophic levels there is less evidence that predators' non-consumptive effects propagate through ecosystems. Here we provide evidence that suppression of abundance and activity ...[more]