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ArticleCommunications biology2024

Multiple environmental stressors affect predation pressure in a tropical freshwater system.

Costanza Zanghi, Iestyn L Penry-Williams, Martin J Genner, Amy E Deacon, Christos C Ioannou

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Article in Communications biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Visual Lateralisation in Female GuppiesEcology and evolution · 2025
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  6. Enhanced conspicuousness of prey in warmer water mitigates the constraint of turbidity for predators.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Costanza ZanghiUniversity of Bristol, School of Biological Sciences, Life Sciences Building, 24 Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1TQ, UK. cos.zan@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-9978-6562
Iestyn L Penry-WilliamsUniversity of Bristol, School of Biological Sciences, Life Sciences Building, 24 Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1TQ, UK.
Martin J GennerUniversity of Bristol, School of Biological Sciences, Life Sciences Building, 24 Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1TQ, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1117-9168
Amy E DeaconThe University of The West Indies, Department of Life Sciences, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.
Christos C IoannouUniversity of Bristol, School of Biological Sciences, Life Sciences Building, 24 Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1TQ, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9739-889X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Environmental change can alter predator-prey dynamics. However, studying predators in the context of co-occurring environmental stressors remains rare, especially under field conditions. Using in situ filming, we examined how multiple stressors, including temperature and turbidity, impact the distribution and behaviour of wild fish predators of Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata). The measured environmental variables accounted for 17.6% of variance in predator species composition. While predator species differed in their associations with environmental variables, the overall prevalence of predators was greatest in slow flowing, deeper, warmer and less turbid habitats. Moreover, these warmer and less turbid habitats were associated with earlier visits to the prey stimulus by predators, and more frequent predator visits and attacks. Our findings highlight the need to consider ecological complexity, such as co-occurring stressors, to better understand how environmental change affects predator-prey interactions.

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Fresh WaterPoeciliaPredatory BehaviorAnimalsEcosystemFishesFood ChainStress, PhysiologicalTemperatureTropical Climate

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PMID38811776
PMCPMC11137014

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