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Strategic mowing of roadside milkweeds increases monarch butterfly oviposition
Publication · August 16, 2025
The Purr‐fect Catch: Using accelerometers and audio recorders to document kill rates and hunting behaviour of a small prey specialist
Abstract
Characterizing variation in predator behaviour and, specifically, quantifying kill rates is fundamental for parameterizing predator–prey and food web models. Yet, current methods for recording kill rates of free‐ranging predators, parti...
Publication · August 16, 2025
Food availability and long-term predation risk interactively affect antipredator response.
Abstract
Food availability and temporal variation in predation risk are both important determinants of the magnitude of antipredator responses, but their effects have rarely been examined simultaneously, particularly in wild prey. Here, we deter...
Publication · August 16, 2025
Experimental field evidence shows milkweed contaminated with a common neonicotinoid decreases larval survival of monarch butterflies.
Abstract
Neonicotinoid insecticides are the most widely used class of insecticides in the world and can have both lethal and sub-lethal effects on non-target organisms in agricultural areas. Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) have experien...
Publication · August 16, 2025
Functional Responses Shape Node and Network Level Properties of a Simplified Boreal Food Web
Abstract
Ecological communities are fundamentally connected through a network of trophic interactions that are often complex and difficult to model. Substantial variation exists in the nature and magnitude of these interactions across various pr...
Publication · August 16, 2025
Activity, heart rate, and energy expenditure of a cold-climate mesocarnivore, the Canada lynx
Abstract
The energetic consequences of body size, behaviour, and fine-scale environmental variation remain understudied, particularly among free-ranging carnivores, due to logistical and methodological challenges of studying them in the field. H...
Publication · August 16, 2025
Behavioural adjustments of predators and prey to wind speed in the boreal forest
Publication · August 16, 2025
When death comes: linking predator–prey activity patterns to timing of mortality to understand predation risk
Abstract
The assumption that activity and foraging are risky for prey underlies many predator–prey theories and has led to the use of predator–prey activity overlap as a proxy of predation risk. However, the simultaneous measures of prey and pre...
Publication · August 16, 2025
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