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multipredator hypothesis

Scope: population ecology
Papers: 3 | Mentions: 3

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Knowledge graph centered on multipredator hypothesis with 21 nodes and 64 connections. Top connected: mark-recapture (Sciuridae), focal animal sampling (Sciuridae), antipredator behavior, A test of the multipredator hypothesis: yellow-bel, alarm communication.

Definition

Assumes that antipredator adaptations evolve together and thus prey may respond to extinct predators as long as they have experience with other predators.

Publications (3)

article

A test of the multipredator hypothesis: yellow-bellied marmots respond fearfully to the sight of novel and extinct predators

2009Animal Behaviourcentral
article

Olfactory predator discrimination in yellow-bellied marmots

2008Ethologyreferenced
chapter

Natural security: a darwinian approach to a dangerous world

2008central

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antipredator behavior

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frequency-dependent selection

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time allocation tradeoff

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focal animal sampling

methodology1 shared paper

habituation

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experience-independent mechanism

hypothesis1 shared paper

alarm communication

process1 shared paper

predatory sequence

framework1 shared paper