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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2021

Sum of fears among intraguild predators drives the survival of green sea turtle (

Chen-Pan Liao, Jung-Ya Hsu, Shi-Ping Huang, Rulon W Clark, Jhan-Wei Lin, Hui-Yun Tseng, Wen-San Huang

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Chen-Pan LiaoDepartment of Biology, National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan.
Jung-Ya HsuDepartment of Biology, National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan.
Shi-Ping HuangDepartment of Life Sciences, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan.
Rulon W ClarkDepartment of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA.
Jhan-Wei LinDepartment of Biology, National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan.
Hui-Yun TsengDepartment of Biology, National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan.
Wen-San HuangDepartment of Biology, National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan.

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Abstract

Ecologists have long theorized that apex predators stabilize trophic systems by exerting a net protective effect on the basal resource of a food web. Although experimental and observational studies have borne this out, it is not always clear what behavioural mechanisms among the trophically connected species are responsible for this stability. Fear of intraguild predation is commonly identified as one such mechanism in models and mesocosm studies, but empirical evidence in natural systems remains limited, as the complexity of many trophic systems renders detailed behavioural studies of species interactions challenging. Here, we combine long-term field observations of a trophic system in nature with experimental behavioural studies of how all the species in this system interact, in both pairs and groups. The results demonstrate how an abundant, sessile and palatable prey item (sea turtle eggs,

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TurtlesAnimalsCannibalismFearFood ChainPredatory BehaviorRatsconspecific cannibalismElaphe carinataintraguild predationOligodon formosanusresource partitioningtrophic cascade

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PMID33563122
PMCPMC7893228

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