- Title
- Examining intraspecific multiple predator effects across shifting predator sex ratios:
- Creator
- Cuthbert, Ross N, Dalu, Tatenda, Wasserman, Ryan J, Weyl, Olaf L F, Froneman, P William, Callaghan, Amanda, Dick, Jaimie T A
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150119
- Identifier
- vital:38941
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2020.03.002
- Description
- Predator-predator interactions, or “multiple predator effects” (MPEs), are pervasive in the structuring of communities and complicate predictive quantifications of ecosystem dynamics. The nature of MPEs is also context-dependent, manifesting differently among species, prey densities and habitat structures. However, there has hitherto been a lack of consideration for the implications of intraspecific demographic variation within populations for the strength of MPEs. The present study extends MPE concepts to examine intraspecific interactions among male and female predators across differences in prey densities using a functional response approach. Focusing on a copepod-mosquito model predator-prey system, interaction strengths of different sex ratio pairs of Lovenula raynerae were quantified towards larval Culex pipiens complex prey, with observations compared to both additive and substitutive model predictions.
- Format
- 9 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Basic and Applied Ecology, Cuthbert, R.N., Dalu, T., Wasserman, R.J., Weyl, O.L., Froneman, P.W., Callaghan, A. and Dick, J.T., 2020. Examining intraspecific multiple predator effects across shifting predator sex ratios. Basic and Applied Ecology, 45. Pp.12-21., Basic and Applied Ecology volume 45 number 12 21 June 2020 1439-1791
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Weyl, Olaf L F (Prof)
Froneman, Pierre William (Prof)
RU South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)
RU Department of Zoology and Entomology
SDG 15. Life On Land
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