It is widely accepted that high predation risk may select for group living, but predation is not regarded as a primary driver of social complexity. This view neglects the important effect of predation ...

Predation is a highly influential ecological process (Sih et al., 1985; Schmitz et al., 2010), affecting animal reproductive strategies (Martin, 1995; Fontaine and Martin, 2006), plant distribution ...

Prokaryotes that are able to prey upon other microbes were first described over 75 years ago, and since then predators have been identified in diverse microbial taxa. Most studies of micropredators in ...

Phanerozoic history of genus-level marine animal diversity (black line) (22) and predation trace frequency of marine invertebrates (orange circle, drillhole; blue triangle, repair scar). (Inset) ...

It is well-known that the body burden of hydrophobic organic compounds (HOCs) increases with the trophic level of aquatic organisms. However, the mechanism of HOC biomagnification is not fully ...

The fossil record seems to indicate that the diversity of marine creatures increased and decreased over hundreds of millions of years in step with predator-prey encounters. For decades, there has been ...

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1 Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Chinhoyi University of Technology, Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe. 2 Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority, Scientific Services Section, Chimanimani ...

Manitoba Beef Producers (MBP) says they’re cautiously optimistic about addressing ongoing issues with wolf predation, although some of their members are hot under the collar about it. Wolves appear to ...