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The Ecology Of Fear: Colonization And Oviposition In Aquatic Systems [Poster], Leeanna Pletcher, Johanna Kraus, James R. Vonesh
The Ecology Of Fear: Colonization And Oviposition In Aquatic Systems [Poster], Leeanna Pletcher, Johanna Kraus, James R. Vonesh
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Introduction
Amphibians and aquatic invertebrates have complex life histories that link aquatic and terrestrial food webs. It has been suggested that amphibian reproduction is an important source of carbon to some aquatic systems. Movement of organisms across the aquatic-terrestrial habitat boundary can represent important subsidies to the receiving habitat. Subsidies are organisms, nutrients, or detritus that cross habitat boundaries and are consumed, and these allochthonous inputs can affect food web structure. Predators can alter subsidies by consuming organisms that would otherwise move across habitat boundaries. Predator induced shifts in habitat selection are a well known non-lethal effect in aquatic systems. …