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

Communities

Recent Papers

Free Access

Community assembly and climate mismatch in Late-Quaternary eastern North American pollen assemblages

Clarke Knight, Jessica L. Blois, Benjamin Blonder, Marc Macias-Fauria, Alejandro Ordonez, and Jens-Christian Svenning

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

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

Nicole L. Kinlock

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

Variability in Dispersal Syndromes Is a Key Driver of Metapopulation Dynamics in Experimental Microcosms

Staffan Jacob, Alexis S. Chaine, Michèle Huet, Jean Clobert, and Delphine Legrand

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Jacob.html

Can Community Structure Causally Determine Dynamics of Constituent Species? A Test Using a Host-Parasite Community

Ryan E. Langendorf and Daniel F. Doak

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Langendorf.html

Individual and Population Differences Shape Species Interactions and Natural Selection

Denon Start

Synthesis

Dormancy in Metacommunities

Nathan I. Wisnoski, Mathew A. Leibold, and Jay T. Lennon

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugWisnoski.html

Free Access

Ecological and Evolutionary Stabilities of Biotrophism, Necrotrophism, and Saprotrophism

Sayaki U. Suzuki and Akira Sasaki

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

Heterogeneous Matrix Habitat Drives Species Occurrences in Complex, Fragmented Landscapes

Jedediah F. Brodie and William D. Newmark

Larger Area Facilitates Richness-Function Effects in Experimental Microcosms

John P. DeLong and Jean P. Gibert

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayDeLongGibert.html

Free Access

Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in Metacommunities: Ecological Inheritance, Helping within Species, and Harming between Species

Charles Mullon and Laurent Lehmann

Synthesis

Nighttime Ecology: The “Nocturnal Problem” Revisited

Kevin J. Gaston

Rapid Divergence of Predator Functional Traits Affects Prey Composition in Aquatic Communities

Dominik W. Schmid, Matthew D. McGee, Rebecca J. Best, Ole Seehausen, and Blake Matthews

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MarSchmid.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

Within-Host Priority Effects Systematically Alter Pathogen Coexistence

Patrick A. Clay, Kailash Dhir, Volker H. W. Rudolf, and Meghan A. Duffy

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

Biogeographical Patterns of Species Richness and Abundance Distribution in Stream Diatoms Are Driven by Climate and Water Chemistry

Sophia I. Passy, Chad A. Larson, Aurélien Jamoneau, William Budnick, Jani Heino, Thibault Leboucher, Juliette Tison-Rosebery, and Janne Soininen

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

Ontogeny and Consistent Individual Differences Mediate Trophic Interactions

Denon Start

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

Assessing Feeding Preferences of a Consumer Guild: Partitioning Variation Among versus Within Species

O. Kennedy Rhoades, Rebecca J. Best, and John J. Stachowicz

Multivariate Climate Change Can Favor Large Herbivore Body Size in Food Webs
Lauren M. Smith-Ramesh, Adam E. Rosenblatt, and Oswald J. Schmitz
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MarSmthRmsh.html

Open Access
Adaptive Divergence in a Defense Symbiosis Driven from the Top Down
Jeremy J. Heath, Patrick Abbot, and John O. Stireman III
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyHeath.html

Frequency Dependence and Ecological Drift Shape Coexistence of Species with Similar Niches
Erik I. Svensson, Miguel A. Gómez-Llano, Anais Rivas Torres, and Hanna M. Bensch
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneSvensson.html

Eco-Evolutionary Buffering: Rapid Evolution Facilitates Regional Species Coexistence despite Local Priority Effects
Meike J. Wittmann and Tadashi Fukami
Abstract: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneWittmann-A.html

Note
Tipping Points in Resource Abundance Drive Irreversible Changes in Community Structure
Seth D. Haney and Adam M. Siepielski
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayHaney.html

Species Pool Functional Diversity Plays a Hidden Role in Generating β-Diversity
Christopher J. Patrick and Bryan L. Brown
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayPatrick.html

Neutral Community Dynamics and the Evolution of Species Interactions
Marco Túlio P. Coelho and Thiago F. Rangel
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprCoelho.html

Symposium
Partitioning the Effects of Eco-Evolutionary Feedbacks on Community Stability
Swati Patel, Michael H. Cortez, and Sebastian J. Schreiber
Abstract: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MarPatel.html

Symposium
Evolution in a Community Context: Trait Responses to Multiple Species Interactions
Casey P. terHorst, Peter C. Zee, Katy D. Heath, Thomas E. Miller, Abigail I. Pastore, Swati Patel, Sebastian J. Schreiber, Michael J. Wade, and Matthew R. Walsh
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/Mar-terHorst.html

Patterns of Local Community Composition Are Linked to Large-Scale Diversification and Dispersal of Clades
John J. Wiens
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebWiens.html

American Society of Naturalists Address
The Ecological Dynamics of Natural Selection: Traits and the Coevolution of Community Structure
Mark A. McPeek
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayMcPeek.html

Historical Comment

Revisiting Paine’s 1966 Sea Star Removal Experiment, the Most-Cited Empirical Article in the American Naturalist

Kevin D. Lafferty and Thomas H. Suchanek

In Memoriam, Open Access: 

Robert Treat Paine III (1933–2016), An Outsized American Naturalist

Brian R. Silliman, Peter Kareiva, and Catherine A. Pfister

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