The ecology and evolution of antipredator defenses in a metacommunity context. KU Leuven
Predation is a key process determining population and community structure. Predators are main drivers not only of ecological but also of evolutionary dynamics of prey populations. Variable presence of predators has led to evolution of a wide array of inducible antipredator defenses in a variety of taxa, involving behavioral as well as physiological, morphological and life history characteristics. Predator induced changes, in turn, may have an ...