This book addresses the fundamental issues of predator-prey interactions, with an emphasis on predation among arthropods, which have been better studied, and for which the database is more extensive than for the large and rare vertebrate predators. The book should appeal to ecologists interested in the broad issue of predation effects on communities.
I. The Nature of Predation and Predator-Prey Interactions 1.: Micky D. Eubanks: Predaceous Herbivores and Herbivorous Predators: The Biology of Omnivores and the Ecology of Omnivore-Prey Interactions 2.: J. Nathaniel Holland, Joshua H. Ness, Alice Boyle, and Judith L. Bronstein: Mutualisms as Consumer-Resource Interactions 3.: Grant E. Brown and Douglass P. Chivers: Learning as an Adaptive Response to Predation 4.: Susan E. Riechert: Patterns of Inheritance of Foraging Traits in Predators II. Sensory, Physiological, and Behavioral Perspectives 5.: Jeffrey D. Triblehorn and David D. Yager: Acoustic Interactions between Insects and Bats: A Model for the Interplay of Neural and Ecological Specializations 6.: Thomas W. Cronin: The Vital Ecology of Predator-Prey Interactions 7.: Matthew H. Greenstone and Joseph C. Dickens: The Production and Appropriation of Chemical Signals among Plants, Herbivores, and Predators 8.: Steven L. Lima and Todd D. Steury: Perception of Predation Risk: The Foundation of Nonlethal Predator-Prey Interactions 9.: Rick A. Relyea: Constraints on Inducible Defenses: Phylogeny, Ontogeny, and Phenotypic Trade-Offs III. Population and Community-Level Interactions 10.: Robert F. Denno, Deborah L. Finke, and Gail A. Langellotto: Direct and Indirect Effects of Vegetation Structure and Habitat Complexity on Predator-Prey and Predator-Predator Interactions 11.: Andrew Sih: Predator-Prey Space Use as an Emergent Outcome of a Behavioral Response Race 12.: Oswald J. Schmitz: Behavior of Predators and Prey and Links with Population-Level Processes 13.: Peter A. Abrams: The Consequences of Predator-Prey Adaptations for Top-Down and Bottom-Up Effects IV. Applied Consequences of Predator-Prey Interactions 14.: John Stireman, Lee A. Dyer, and Robert Matlock: Top-Down Forces in Managed versus Unmanaged Habitats 15.: William E. Snyder, Gary C. Chang, and Renee P. Prasad: Conservation Biological Control: Biodiversity Influences the Effectivness of Predators 16.: Pedro Barbosa, Astrid Caldas, and Susan E. Riechert: Species Abundance Distribution and Predator-Prey Interactions: Theoretical and Applied Consequences 17.: John L. Gittleman and Matthew E. Gompper: Plight of Predators: The Importance of Carnivores for Understanding Patterns of Biodiversity and Extinction Risk
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