New dimensionless indices of structural habitat complexity: predicted and actual effects on a predator's foraging success

By A. Bartholomew, R. Díaz, G. Cicchetti. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Effects of habitat complexity on forest beetle diversity: do functional groups respond consistently? (2005, background): “Complex habitats provide shelter from predation (if comparisons are made using an equal ratio of predator: prey abundance) (Bartholomew et al., 2000; Hoddle, 2003) and greater moisture levels for these prey items.”
Antipredator behaviour of 0+ year Perca fluviatilis: effect of vegetation density and turbidity (2004, unknown): “Both of these two mortality-reducing mechanisms are directly dependent on the density of the vegetation (Savino & Stein, 1982; Bartholomew et al., 2000).”
Quantifying habitat structure: surface convolution and living space for species in complex environments (2008, methodology): “By scaling the average interstitial gap size to the predator of interest, in this case pygmy perch, the Sp/Pr specifically incorporates information about how the structure is used (Bartholomew et al. 2000).”
The effects of seafloor habitat complexity on survival of juvenile fishes : Species-specific interactions with structural refuge (2006, background): “Laboratory experiments indicate that complex habitat features can interfere with predator search and pursuit behavior, contributing to lower predation vulnerability for small fishes occupying these habitats (Nelson and Bonsdorff, 1990; Gotceitas and Brown, 1993; Gotceitas et al., 1995; Fraser et al.”
Settlement and Survival of the Oyster Crassostrea virginica on Created Oyster Reef Habitats in Chesapeake Bay (2007, background): “Experimental studies have demonstrated that habitat complexity reduces predator foraging efﬁciency by reducing the predator–prey encounter rate (Bartholomew et al. 2000; Grabowski 2004).”
Causes and effects of a highly successful marine invasion: Case-study of the introduced Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas in continental NW European estuaries (2010, background): “Reduced mortality of the mussels may be explained by reduced predator–prey encounter rates in the structurally more complex oyster reef (Bartholomew et al., 2000; Grabowski, 2004; Section 4.2), as well as a reduced accessibility for predatory birds such as the oystercatcher H. ostralegus.”
Habitat complexity: approaches and future directions (2011, background): “This index is dimensionless and specifically scaled to the organisms of interest, and also provides an effective measure for comparing across different habitats and ecosystems (Bartholomew et al., 2000; Warfe et al., 2008; but see Bell et al., 2003).”
Salt marshes as nurseries for nekton: testing hypotheses on density, growth and survival through meta-analysis (2003, background): “However, structural complexity of habitats is difficult to reproduce in the laboratory and difficult to quantify (Nelson & Bonsdorff 1990, Bartholomew et al. 2000).”
Distribution of sympatric seahorse species along a gradient of habitat complexity in a seagrass-dominated community (2005, background): “Landscape level habitat associations The amount of total habitat covered by vegetation and sessile invertebrates, Ct/At, appeared to influence the distribution and abundance of Hippocampus guttulatus.”
Behavioral mechanisms underlying the refuge value of benthic habitat structure for two flatfishes with differing anti-predator strategies (2004, background): “Bartholomew et al. (2000) suggested that the ratio of average interstructural space size to predator size (Sp/Pr) is a useful dimensionless measure of the extent to which the structure impedes predator movement.”