Interspecific variation in life history relates to antipredator decisions by marine mesopredators on temperate reefs.

As upper-level predatory fishes become overfished, mesopredators rise to become the new 'top' predators of over-exploited marine communities. To gain insight into ensuing mechanisms that might alter indirect species interactions, we examined how behavioural responses to an upper-level pred...

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Main Authors: Alejandro Frid, Jeff Marliave, Michael R Heithaus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3386963?pdf=render