Consumer-prey interactions

Wahl M, Hay ME, Enderlein P (1997) Effects of epibiosis on consumer-prey interactions. Hydrobiologia 355 49-59... 

Duffy JE, Hay ME (2001) The ecology and evolution of marine consumer-prey interactions. In Bertness MD, Gaines SD, Hay ME (eds) Marine community ecology. Sinauer, Sunderland, pp 131-158 Duisken M, Sandner F, Blomeke B, Hollender J (2005) Metabolism of 1,8-cineole by human cytochrome P450 enzymes identification of a new hydroxylated metabolite. Biochim Biophys Acta 1722 304-311... 

Liss PS, Malin G, Turner SM, Holligan PM (1994) Dimethyl sulphide and Phaeocystis a review. J Mar Syst 5 41 Long JD (2004) Plasticity of consumer-prey interactions in the sea chemical signaling, learned aversions, and ecological consequences. Biology. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, pill... 

Cruz-Rivera E, Hay ME (2003) Prey nutritional quality interacts with chemical defenses to affect consumer feeding and fitness. Ecol Monogr 73 483-506 Cruz-Rivera E, Paul VJ (2006) Feeding by coral reef mesograzers algae or cyanobacteria Coral Reefs 25 617-627... 

Another kairomonal interaction, the detection of chemical cues from predators, has been found in the interaction between Argyrodes trigonum (Theridiidae), a klep-toparasitic species that lives in the web of and occasionally consumes its linyphiid host F. communis (as F. pyramitela). Upon contact with A. trigonum cuticular chemicals, F. communis responds by retreating, in contrast to the attack behavior elicited by cuticular compounds from other prey species (Suter et al., 1989). 

Although most work on the effect of secondary metabolites on digestive processes has occurred in the phlorotannin-herbivore system, thousands of other nonphlorotannin metabolites have been identified as putative deterrents.1 Studies of some of these have shown that the metabolites can have negative post-ingestive consequences.190191 And, although little work has been done on these secondary metabolites with respect to consumer digestion processes per se, the complexity of the interactions is apparent from studies that suggest that the effectiveness of the chemical defense is linked to prey nutritional quality,36 37 calcification,37 192-195 and recent prey/consumer history.32... 

The model describes a three level vertical food-chain, where the resource or vegetation u is consumed by herbivores u, which in turn are prey on by top predators w. The parameters a, b and c represent the respective growth rates of each species in the absence of interspecific interactions (fci = fc2 = 0). The functions fi x,y) describe interactions between... 

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