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