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View article: Fear of Predators Suppresses Neurogenesis in the Brains of Wild Songbirds
Fear of Predators Suppresses Neurogenesis in the Brains of Wild Songbirds Open
Synopsis Fear of predation can lead to behavioral changes indicative of an enduring memory of fear, as acknowledged by both ecologists and biomedical scientists studying post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Enduring memories are often li…
View article: Fear of the human ‘super predator’ in native marsupials and introduced deer in Australia
Fear of the human ‘super predator’ in native marsupials and introduced deer in Australia Open
Recent experiments have demonstrated that carnivores and ungulates in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America fear the human ‘super predator’ far more than other predators. Australian mammals have been a focus of research on predator naivet…
View article: Fear of predators reduces body and physiological condition affecting offspring survival and the ‘quality’ of the survivors
Fear of predators reduces body and physiological condition affecting offspring survival and the ‘quality’ of the survivors Open
Predators affect the survival of developing young by eating them. More recently, the fear of being eaten has been uncovered as a powerful driver of offspring survival reducing recruited offspring numbers by 53%, but the mechanisms driving …
View article: Fear of predators in free-living wildlife reduces population growth over generations
Fear of predators in free-living wildlife reduces population growth over generations Open
Significance Accurately evaluating the total impact of predators on prey population growth rates is fundamental to forecasting the consequences of predator conservation and management. That the fear (antipredator responses) predators inspi…
View article: Playbacks of predator vocalizations reduce crop damage by ungulates
Playbacks of predator vocalizations reduce crop damage by ungulates Open
Wild ungulates are a major consumer of agricultural crops in human dominated landscapes. Across Europe, ungulate populations are leading to intensified human-wildlife conflicts. At the same time, ungulates play a vital role in the structur…
View article: Ecology and Neurobiology of Fear in Free-Living Wildlife
Ecology and Neurobiology of Fear in Free-Living Wildlife Open
The ecology of fear concerns the population-, community-, and ecosystem-level consequences of the behavioral interactions between predators and prey, i.e., the aggregate impacts of individual responses to life-threatening events. We review…
View article: Humans, but not their dogs, displace pumas from their kills: An experimental approach
Humans, but not their dogs, displace pumas from their kills: An experimental approach Open
Domestic dogs are the most abundant large carnivore on the planet, and their ubiquity has led to concern regarding the impacts of dogs as predators of and competitors with native wildlife. If native large carnivores perceive dogs as threat…
View article: Predator-induced fear causes PTSD-like changes in the brains and behaviour of wild animals
Predator-induced fear causes PTSD-like changes in the brains and behaviour of wild animals Open
Predator-induced fear is both, one of the most common stressors employed in animal model studies of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and a major focus of research in ecology. There has been a growing discourse between these disciplin…
View article: Data from Suraci et al. 2019. Ecology Letters
Data from Suraci et al. 2019. Ecology Letters Open
All datasets used in:Suraci et al. 2019. Fear of humans as apex predators has landscape-scale impacts from mountain lions to mice. Ecology Letters. See included README.txt file for full details.
View article: Fear of the human ‘super predator’ reduces feeding time in large carnivores
Fear of the human ‘super predator’ reduces feeding time in large carnivores Open
Large carnivores' fear of the human ‘super predator’ has the potential to alter their feeding behaviour and result in human-induced trophic cascades. However, it has yet to be experimentally tested if large carnivores perceive humans as pr…
View article: Too important to tamper with: predation risk affects body mass and escape behaviour but not escape ability
Too important to tamper with: predation risk affects body mass and escape behaviour but not escape ability Open
Summary Escaping from a predator is a matter of life or death, and prey are expected to adaptively alter their physiology under chronic predation risk in ways that may affect escape. Theoretical models assume that escape performance is mas…
View article: Do Large Carnivores and Mesocarnivores Have Redundant Impacts on Intertidal Prey?
Do Large Carnivores and Mesocarnivores Have Redundant Impacts on Intertidal Prey? Open
The presence of large carnivores can affect lower trophic levels by suppressing mesocarnivores and reducing their impacts on prey. The mesopredator release hypothesis therefore predicts prey abundance will be higher where large carnivores …
View article: Fearlessness towards extirpated large carnivores may exacerbate the impacts of naïve mesocarnivores
Fearlessness towards extirpated large carnivores may exacerbate the impacts of naïve mesocarnivores Open
Lay Summary Large carnivores protect ecosystems by frightening mesocarnivores, and “fearless” mesocarnivores wreak havoc where large carnivores are lost. Species may become naïve to potential threats (“tame” in Darwin’s words) when separat…
View article: A new Automated Behavioural Response system to integrate playback experiments into camera trap studies
A new Automated Behavioural Response system to integrate playback experiments into camera trap studies Open
Summary How animals respond to anthropogenic disturbances is a core component of conservation biology and how they respond to predators and competitors is equally of central importance to wildlife ecology. Camera traps have rapidly become …
View article: Fear of predators as an ecosystem service
Fear of predators as an ecosystem service Open
The fear that predators instill in prey induces short-term anti-predator behaviours across every animal taxa that are beneficial in avoiding immediate death, but carry costs; one of the most well-established being that scared prey eat less…
View article: Fear of predators as an ecosystem service
Fear of predators as an ecosystem service Open
The fear that predators instill in prey induces short-term anti-predator behaviours across every animal taxa that are beneficial in avoiding immediate death, but carry costs; one of the most well-established being that scared prey eat less…
View article: Fear of the human “super predator” far exceeds the fear of large carnivores in a model mesocarnivore
Fear of the human “super predator” far exceeds the fear of large carnivores in a model mesocarnivore Open
The fear (perceived predation risk) large carnivores inspire in mesocarnivores can affect ecosystem structure and function, and loss of the "landscape of fear" large carnivores create adds to concerns regarding the worldwide loss of large …