ArticleCurrent zoology2018
Gradients in predation risk in a tropical river system.
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- Exploring the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on predator inspection activity in Trinidadian guppies.Current zoology · 2024Article
- Predation affects body shape in the knife livebearerEcology and evolution · 2023Article
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- Long-term environmental stability does not erode plasticity in nest building responses to changing ambient conditions.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Temperature and turbidity interact synergistically to alter anti-predator behaviour in the Trinidadian guppy.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Disturbance cue communication is shaped by emitter diet and receiver background risk in Trinidadian guppies.Current zoology · 2022Article
- Exploratory decisions of Trinidadian guppies when uncertain about predation risk.Animal cognition · 2022Article
- Causal evidence for the adaptive benefits of social foraging in the wild.Communications biology · 2021Article
- The propensity for re-triggered predation fear in a prey fish.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Sender and receiver experience alters the response of fish to disturbance cues.Current zoology · 2020Article
- High-risk environments promote chemical disturbance signalling among socially familiar Trinidadian guppies.Oecologia · 2020Article
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- Ecology and evolution along environmental gradients.Current zoology · 2018Article
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Abstract
The importance of predation risk as a key driver of evolutionary change is exemplified by the Northern Range in Trinidad, where research on guppies living in multiple parallel streams has provided invaluable insights into the process of evolution by natural selection. Although Trinidadian guppies are now a textbook example of evolution in action, studies have generally categorized predation as a dichotomous variable, representing high or low risk. Yet, ecologists appreciate that community structure and the attendant predation risk vary substantially over space and time. Here, we use data from a longitudinal study of fish assemblages at 16 different sites in the Northern Range to quantify temporal and spatial variation in predation risk. Specifically we ask: 1) Is there evidence for a gradient in predation risk? 2) Does the ranking of sites (by risk) change with the definition of the predator community (in terms of species composition and abundance currency), and 3) Are site rankings consistent over time? We find compelling evidence that sites lie along a continuum of risk. However, site rankings along this gradient depend on how predation is quantified in terms of the species considered to be predators and the abundance currency is used. Nonetheless, for a given categorization and currency, rankings are relatively consistent over time. Our study suggests that consideration of predation gradients will lead to a more nuanced understanding of the role of predation risk in behavioral and evolutionary ecology. It also emphasizes the need to justify and report the definition of predation risk being used.
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