Predatory Behavior - Physiology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Receptive field organization across multiple electrosensory maps. II. Computational analysis of the effects of receptive field size on prey localization.

8 Oct 2009 The electric fish Apteronotus leptorhynchus emits a high-frequency electric organ discharge (EOD) sensed by specialized electroreceptors (P-units) distributed across the fish's skin. Objects such as prey increase the amplitude of the EOD over the ... Read more...

Functional richness and ecosystem services: bird predation on arthropods in tropical agroecosystems.

29 Sep 2009 In agroecosystems, biodiversity correlates with ecosystem function, yet mechanisms driving these relationships are often unknown. Examining traits and functional classifications of organisms providing ecosystem functions may provide insight into the ... Read more...

Adaptive shell color plasticity during the early ontogeny of an intertidal keystone snail.

31 Aug 2009 We report a mechanism of crypsis present during the vulnerable early post-metamorphic ontogeny (Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Predatory Behavior - Physiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Receptive field organization across multiple electrosensory maps. II. Computational analysis of the effects of receptive field size on prey localization. 8 Oct 2009
• Functional richness and ecosystem services: bird predation on arthropods in tropical agroecosystems. 29 Sep 2009
• Adaptive shell color plasticity during the early ontogeny of an intertidal keystone snail. 31 Aug 2009
• Group-size-mediated habitat selection and group fusion-fission dynamics of bison under predation risk. 30 Aug 2009
• Intraguild predation in a structured habitat: distinguishing multiple-predator effects from competitor effects. 30 Aug 2009
• Effects of predator functional diversity on grassland ecosystem function. 30 Aug 2009
• Biodiversity: Rack and field. 18 Aug 2009
• Behaviour and kinematics of continuous ram filtration in bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus). 17 Aug 2009
• Inertial feeding in the teiid lizard Tupinambis merianae: the effect of prey size on the movements of hyolingual apparatus and the cranio-cervical system. 30 Jul 2009
• Predators and the breeding bird: behavioral and reproductive flexibility under the risk of predation. 30 Jul 2009
• Intrapopulation niche partitioning in a generalist predator limits food web connectivity. 30 Jul 2009
• The evolutionary origins of beneficial alleles during the repeated adaptation of garter snakes to deadly prey. 26 Jul 2009
• Phase-locking and environmental fluctuations generate synchrony in a predator-prey community. 20 Jul 2009
• Mechanisms and feasibility of prey capture in ambush-feeding zooplankton. 19 Jul 2009
• Glucocorticoid stress hormones and the effect of predation risk on elk reproduction. 12 Jul 2009
• Understanding human aggression: New insights from neuroscience. 10 Jul 2009
• Species extinction and permanence of an impulsively controlled two-prey one-predator system with seasonal effects. 6 Jul 2009
• How barn owls (Tyto alba) visually follow moving voles (Microtus socialis) before attacking them. Jul 2009
• Antipredator behavior of the freshwater microturbellarian Stenostomum sphagnetorum against the predatory ciliate Dileptus margaritifer. 29 Jun 2009
• Brief communication: Plio-Pleistocene eagle predation on fossil cercopithecids from the Humpata Plateau, southern Angola. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Predatory Behavior'

Definition: Instinctual behavior pattern in which food is obtained by killing and consuming other species.

Descriptor UI: D011235

Alternative terms: Predatory Behavior; Behavior, Predatory; Behaviors, Predatory; Predatory Behaviors;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F01.145.113.111.600; F01.145.113.252.520;

History Note: 91(75); was see under APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR 1975-90

Technical Notes: animal only