Seascapes of fear: evaluating sublethal predator effects experienced and generated by marine mammals

By Aaron J. Wirsing, Michael R. Heithaus, A. Frid, Lawrence M. Dill. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Effects of predator control on behaviour of an apex predator and indirect consequences for mesopredator suppression (2012, background): “Species exposed to predation (or interference competition) also avoid high-risk areas in space, forgoing potential foraging gains from using those areas (Brown, Laundré & Gurung 1999; Laundré, Hernández & Altendorf 2001; Wirsing et al. 2008).”
Apparent Resource Partitioning and Trophic Structure of Large-Bodied Marine Predators in a Relatively Pristine Seagrass Ecosystem (2013, background): “Large-bodied marine predators, especially sharks and odontocete cetaceans (toothed whales), can play important roles in coastal marine communities through both consumptive and non-consumptive effects on their prey (e.g. Williams et al. 2004, Heit haus et al. 2008, 2010, Wirsing et al. 2008).”
Cascading top-down effects of changing oceanic predator abundances. (2009, background): “consumptive) predator effects; yet a growing body of literature shows that non-consumptive effects (also known as ‘trait-mediated’ or ‘risk’ effects), which induce changes in prey behaviour, growth, or development can play an important role in predator–prey dynamics (e.g. see Peckarsky et al. 2008; ”
Confusion reigns? A review of marine megafauna interactions with tidal-stream environments (2015, background): “Animals’ foraging behaviours are modified by risk of predator exposure (Wirsing et al. 2008), and this is also likely to influence the extent to which animals make use of tidal-stream sites.”
The ecological importance of intact top-predator populations: a synthesis of 15 years of research in a seagrass ecosystem (2012, background): “…taxa respond behaviourally to their predators and their populations may be, at least partially, influenced by predation, predation risk, and their interaction even if predation rates are low (Wirsing et al. 2008a; Heithaus et al. 2008a, 2008b, 2009; Creel and Christianson 2008; Creel 2011).”
Whale killers: Prevalence and ecological implications of killer whale predation on humpback whale calves off Western Australia (2015, background): “For both humpbacks and gray whales, these differences in migration routes are probably examples of prey behavior being influenced by predator intimidation (i.e., a nonconsumptive predator impact; Wirsing et al. 2008).”
Demographic Response of Mule Deer to Experimental Reduction of Coyotes and Mountain Lions in Southeastern Idaho (2011, unknown): “2007) and marine systems (Wirsing et al. 2008).”
Behavioural drivers of the ecological roles and importance of marine mammals (2015, background): “…factors influencing marine mammal behaviour, often underappreciated is the possibility that marine mammal behaviour may be shaped by predation risk (e.g. Norris & Dohl 1980, Corkeron & Connor 1999, Heithaus 2001, Heithaus & Dill 2002, Ford & Reeves 2008, and see Wirsing et al. 2008 for a review).”
Deep danger: intra-specific predation risk influences habitat use and aggregation formation of juvenile lemon sharks Negaprion brevirostris (2012, background): “In recent years the non-consumptive effects of predators have also been considered for marine communities (Dill et al. 2003, Trussell et al. 2004, Wirsing et al. 2008, Heithaus et al. 2008).”
Trophic cascades in the western Ross Sea, Antarctica: revisited (2015, background): “Photos: D. Ainley and W. Smith Mar Ecol Prog Ser 534: 1–16, 2015 date the importance of top-down forcing and trophic cascades (e.g. Myers et al. 2007, Heithaus et al. 2008, Wirsing et al. 2008, Estes 2014).”