Predator-Prey Interactions

Recent Papers

State-Dependent Decision-Making by Predators and Its Consequences for Mimicry

Thomas G. Aubier and Thomas N. Sherratt

Ecological Pleiotropy Suppresses the Dynamic Feedback Generated by a Rapidly Changing Trait

John P. DeLong

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Oct-DeLong.html

Prey Exploits the Auditory Illusions of Eavesdropping Predators

Henry D. Legett, Claire T. Hemingway, and Ximena E. Bernal

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/May-Legett.html

Factors That Can Affect the Spatial Positioning of Large and Small Individuals in Clusters of Sit-and-Wait Predators

Inon Scharf

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Apr-Scharf.html

Safety Cues Can Give Prey More Valuable Information Than Danger Cues

Barney Luttbeg, Maud C. O. Ferrari, Daniel T. Blumstein, and Douglas P. Chivers

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Apr-Luttbeg.html

VP Symposium

How Does Joint Evolution of Consumer Traits Affect Resource Specialization?

Paula Vasconcelos and Claus Rueffler

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/VP-Vasconcelos.html

Spatial Scales of Population Synchrony in Predator-Prey Systems

Javier Jarillo, Bernt-Erik Sæther, Steinar Engen, and Francisco Javier Cao-García

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Feb-Jarillo.html

Trophic Position of Consumers and Size Structure of Food Webs across Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems

Anton M. Potapov, Ulrich Brose, Stefan Scheu, and Alexei V. Tiunov

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Dec-Potapov.html

False Exclusion: A Case to Embed Predator Performance in Classical Population Models

David J. S. Montagnes, Xuexia Zhu, Lei Gu, Yunfei Sun, Jun Wang, Rosie Horner, and Zhou Yang

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Montagnes.html

Information about Predators Varies across an Amazonian Rain Forest as a Result of Sentinel Species Distribution

Ettore Camerlenghi, Paola Tellaroli, Matteo Griggio, and Ari E. Martínez

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Camerlenghi.html

Open Access

Patch Size as a Niche Dimension: Aquatic Insects Behaviorally Partition Enemy-Free Space across Gradients of Patch Size

William J. Resetarits, Matthew R. Pintar, Jason R. Bohenek, and Tyler M. Breech

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Dec-Resetarits.html

Open Access; Special Feature on Maladaptation

Maladapted Prey Subsidize Predators and Facilitate Range Expansion

Mark C. Urban, Alice Scarpa, Justin M. J. Travis, and Greta Bocedi

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Oct-Urban.html

Special Feature on Maldaptation

Seed Masting Causes Fluctuations in Optimum Litter Size and Lag Load in a Seed Predator

Andrew G. McAdam, Stan Boutin, Ben Dantzer, and Jeffrey E. Lane

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugMcAdam.html

Natural History Note

Destruction of Spiderwebs and Rescue of Ensnared Nestmates by a Granivorous Desert Ant (Veromessor pergandei)

Christina L. Kwapich and Bert Hölldobler

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Kwapich.html

Decreasing Predator Density and Activity Explains Declining Predation of Insect Prey along Elevational Gradients

Luis F. Camacho and Leticia Avilés

Natural History Note

Playing out Liem’s Paradox: Opportunistic Piscivory across Lake Tanganyikan Cichlids

Jimena Golcher-Benavides and Catherine E. Wagner

Summary: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/Aug-Golcher-Benavides.html

Higher Nest Predation Favors Rapid Fledging at the Cost of Plumage Quality in Nestling Birds

Lea M. Callan, Frank A. La Sorte, Thomas E. Martin, and Vanya G. Rohwer

Summary: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayCallan.html

Effects of Predator Avoidance Behavior on the Coexistence of Competing Prey

Pacifica Sommers and Peter Chesson

Summary: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MaySommers.html

Prey Responses to Exotic Predators: Effects of Old Risks and New Cues

Sean M. Ehlman, Pete C. Trimmer, and Andrew Sih

Summary: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprEhlman.html

Open Access

Predator-Prey Models with Competition: The Emergence of Territoriality

Henri Berestycki and Alessandro Zilio

Summary: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MarBerestycki.html

Open Access

Conspicuous Plumage Does Not Increase Predation Risk: A Continent-Wide Test Using Model Songbirds

Kristal E. Cain, Michelle L. Hall, Illiana Medina, Ana V. Leitao, Kaspar Delhey, Lyanne Brouwer, Anne Peters, Stephen Pruett-Jones, Michael S. Webster, Naomi E. Langmore, and Raoul A. Mulder

Summary: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MarCain.html

Open Access

Species’ Range Dynamics Affect the Evolution of Spatial Variation in Plasticity under Environmental Change

Max Schmid, Ramon Dallo, and Frédéric Guillaume

Predator-Prey Games in Multiple Habitats Reveal Mixed Strategies in Diel Vertical Migration

Jérôme Pinti and André W. Visser

Summary: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MarPinti.html

Natural History Note
Testing Darwin’s Hypothesis about the Wonderful Venus Flytrap: Marginal Spikes Form a “Horrid Prison” for Moderate-Sized Insect Prey
Alexander L. Davis, Matthew H. Babb, Matthew C. Lowe, Adam T. Yeh, Brandon T. Lee, and Christopher H. Martin
Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebDavis.html

Space Use and Leadership Modify Dilution Effects on Optimal Vigilance under Food-Safety Trade-Offs
Rémi Patin, Daniel Fortin, Cédric Sueur, and Simon Chamaillé-Jammes
Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanPatin.html

Celebrating The American Naturalist at 150, Open Access
Specifying the Harsh Conditions of Life: Resource Competition and Predation in the 1970s
Alita R. Burmeister and Richard E. Lenski

Competition

Recent Papers

Shifts in Reproductive Investment in Response to Competitors Lower Male Reproductive Success

Foteini Spagopoulou, Regina Vega-Trejo, Megan L. Head, and Michael D. Jennions

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Spagopoulou.html

Effect of Stressors on the Carrying Capacity of Spatially Distributed Metapopulations

Bo Zhang, Donald L. DeAngelis, Wei-Ming Ni, Yuanshi Wang, Lu Zhai, Alex Kula, Shuang Xu, and J. David Van Dyken

Species Differences in Phenology Shape Coexistence

Christopher Blackford, Rachel M. Germain, and Benjamin Gilbert

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/July-Blackford.html

Free Access

Beyond Pairwise Interactions: Multispecies Character Displacement in Mexican Freshwater Fish Communities

Andrea J. Roth-Monzón, Mark C. Belk, J. Jaime Zúñiga-Vega, and Jerald B. Johnson

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/June-Roth-Monzon.html

Increased Levels of Perceived Competition Decrease Juvenile Kin-Shoaling Preferences in a Cichlid Fish

Timo Thünken, Saskia Hesse, and Denis Meuthen

Belowground Competition Can Influence the Evolution of Root Traits

Sara M. Colom and Regina S. Baucom

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Apr-Colom.html

Stochastic Dynamics of Three Competing Clones: Conditions and Times for Invasion, Coexistence, and Fixation

Sylvain Billiard and Charline Smadi

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Mar-Billiard.html

Nonlinear Effects of Intraspecific Competition Alter Landscape-Wide Scaling Up of Ecosystem Function

Chelsea J. Little, Emanuel A. Fronhofer, and Florian Altermatt

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Mar-Little.html

How Does Joint Evolution of Consumer Traits Affect Resource Specialization?

Paula Vasconcelos and Claus Rueffler

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/VP-Vasconcelos.html

Evolutionary Rescue from a Wave of Biological Invasion

J. David Van Dyken

Scale Both Confounds and Informs Characterization of Species Coexistence in Empirical Systems

Adam Clark, Helmut Hillebrand, and W. Stanley Harpole

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanGuelzow.html

Combined Effects of Natural Enemies and Competition for Resources on a Forest Defoliator: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis

Molly E. Gallagher and Greg Dwyer

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Dec-Gallagher.html

A Meta-analysis of Plant Interaction Networks Reveals Competitive Hierarchies as well as Facilitation and Intransitivity

Nicole L. Kinlock

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Kinlock.html

On the Consequences of the Interdependence of Stabilizing and Equalizing Mechanisms

Chuliang Song, György Barabás, and Serguei Saavedra

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Song.html

Early Sibling Conflict May Ultimately Benefit the Family

Alyssa Laney Smith, Daniel Z. Atwater, and Ragan M. Callaway

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Oct-Smith.html

Note

A General Explanation for the Persistence of Reproductive Interference

Jonathan P. Drury, Christopher N. Anderson, Maria B. Cabezas Castillo, Jewel Fisher, Shawn McEachin, and Gregory F. Grether

Blurb: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugDrury.html

Assessing Behavioral Associations in a Hybrid Zone through Social Network Analysis: Complex Assortative Behaviors Structure Associations in a Hybrid Quail Population

David M. Zonana, Jennifer M. Gee, Eli S. Bridge, Michael D. Breed, and Daniel F. Doak

Blurb: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneZonana.html

Effects of Predator Avoidance Behavior on the Coexistence of Competing Prey

Pacifica Sommers and Peter Chesson

Blurb: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MaySommers.html

Age-Specific Offspring Mortality Economically Tracks Food Abundance in a Piscivorous Seabird

Oscar Vedder, He Zhang, Andreas Dänhardt, and Sandra Bouwhuis

Blurb: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprVedder.html

Limiting Similarity? The Ecological Dynamics of Natural Selection among Resources and Consumers Caused by Both Apparent and Resource Competition

Mark A. McPeek

Competitive Exclusion and Evolution: Convergence Almost Never Produces Ecologically Equivalent Species: (A Comment on McPeek, “Limiting Similarity? The Ecological Dynamics of Natural Selection among Resources and Consumers Caused by Both Apparent and Resource Competition”)

Liz Pásztor, György Barabás, and Géza Meszéna

Open Access

Predator-Prey Models with Competition: The Emergence of Territoriality

Henri Berestycki and Alessandro Zilio

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MarBerestycki.html

Open Access

Priority Effects and Nonhierarchical Competition Shape Species Composition in a Complex Grassland Community

Lawrence H. Uricchio, S. Caroline Daws, Erin R. Spear, and Erin A. Mordecai

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebUricchio.html

Increased Temperature Disrupts the Biodiversity–Ecosystem Functioning Relationship

Elodie C. Parain, Rudolf P. Rohr, Sarah M. Gray, and Louis-Félix Bersier

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebParain.html

Open Access

Delayed Chemical Defense: Timely Expulsion of Herbivores Can Reduce Competition with Neighboring Plants

Pia Backmann, Volker Grimm, Gottfried Jetschke, Yue Lin, Matthijs Vos, Ian T. Baldwin, and Nicole M. van Dam

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanBackmann.html

Celebrating Am Nat 150, Open Access

Specifying the Harsh Conditions of Life: Resource Competition and Predation in the 1970s

Alita R. Burmeister and Richard E. Lenski

Coevolution

Recent Papers

Macroevolutionary Origin and Adaptive Function of a Polymorphic Female Signal Involved in Sexual Conflict

Beatriz Willink, M. Catherine Duryea, and Erik I. Svensson

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Willink.html

Coevolution Creates Complex Mosaics across Large Landscapes

Lucas D. Fernandes, Paula Lemos-Costa, Paulo R. Guimarães Jr., John N. Thompson, and Marcus A. M. de Aguiar

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugFernandes.html

Free Access

How Does the Evolution of Universal Ecological Traits Affect Population Size? Lessons from Simple Models

Peter A. Abrams

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneAbrams.html

Indirect Interactions Shape Selection in a Multispecies Food Web

Denon Start, Arthur E. Weis, and Benjamin Gilbert

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MarStart.html

Assortative Mating by an Obliquely Transmitted Local Cultural Trait Promotes Genetic Divergence: A Model

D. Justin Yeh

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanYeh.html

Sexual Conflict and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs): Coevolution of Sexually Antagonistic Host Traits with an STI

Alison M. Wardlaw and Aneil F. Agrawal

Gene-Culture Coinheritance of a Behavioral Trait

Elliot G. Aguilar and Erol Akçay

Coevolution Slows the Disassembly of Mutualistic Networks

Scott L. Nuismer, Bob Week, and Marcelo A. Aizen

Host Traits Drive Viral Life Histories across Phytoplankton Viruses

Kyle F. Edwards and Grieg F. Steward

Neutral Community Dynamics and the Evolution of Species Interactions

Marco Túlio P. Coelho and Thiago F. Rangel

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprCoelho.html

Open Access

Coevolution between Mutualists and Parasites in Symbiotic Communities May Lead to the Evolution of Lower Virulence

Paul G. Nelson and Georgiana May

Natural History Note

Hollow Internodes Permit a Neotropical Understory Plant to Shelter Multiple Mutualistic Ant Species, Obtaining Protection and Nutrient Provisioning (Myrmecotrophy)

Alain Dejean, Frédéric Petitclerc, Arthur Compin, Frédéric Azémar,1 Bruno Corbara, Jacques H. C. Delabie, and Céline Leroy

Note

Rethinking Conventional Wisdom: Are Locally Adapted Parasites Ahead in the Coevolutionary Race?

Scott L. Nuismer

Sanctions, Partner Recognition, and Variation in Mutualism

Jeremy B. Yoder and Peter Tiffin

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/OctYoder.html

Open Access

The Role of the Environment in the Evolution of Tolerance and Resistance to a Pathogen

Michael Zeller and Jacob C. Koella