Interactions between Behavioral and Life‐History Trade‐Offs in the Evolution of Integrated Predator‐Defense Plasticity

Inducible defense, which is phenotypic plasticity in traits that affect predation risk, is taxonomically widespread and has been shown to have important ecological consequences. However, it remains unclear what factors promote the evolution of qualitatively different defense strategies and when evol...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The American naturalist 2010-09, Vol.176 (3), p.276-288
Hauptverfasser:	Cressler, Clayton E., King, Aaron A., Werner, Earl E.
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animal and plant ecology Animal behavior Animal, plant and microbial ecology Animals Behavior, Animal - physiology Biological and medical sciences Biological Evolution Body Size Dispersal Ecological life histories Ecology Escape Reaction Evolution Feeding Behavior Food Chain Foraging Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology General aspects Genotype & phenotype Models, Biological Mortality Ontogeny Personality traits Phenotype Phenotypic traits Predation Predators Taxonomy
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