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 ...

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 ...

Almost all animals eat living things, so in a sense most are predators. We normally restrict the term, though, to cases in which the animal chases and kills its prey. Nevertheless, the models we will ...

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 ...

Predation is one of the main evolutionary drivers of social grouping. While it is well appreciated that predation risk is likely not shared equally among individuals within groups, its detailed ...

Cholera epidemics occur seasonally in areas such as Bangladesh, and outbreaks can also strike in vulnerable regions, as has occurred recently in Haiti. The disease is caused by Vibrio cholerae, a ...

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 ...

New research by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) and University of East Anglia, in collaboration with other partners, has given the most comprehensive analysis of predation events at birds' ...