Chemical Ecology of Wave-Swept Shores: the Primacy of Contact Cues in Predation by Whelks
| Autor: | Cheryl Ann Zimmer, Graham A. Ferrier, Richard K. Zimmer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0106 biological sciences
Gastropoda Population Balanus glandula 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Predation Chemical stimuli Animals Prospective Studies education Shore geography education.field_of_study geography.geographical_feature_category biology Ecology 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology Thoracica Water biology.organism_classification Chemical ecology Predatory Behavior Ecological principles Acanthinucella spirata Cues General Agricultural and Biological Sciences |
| Zdroj: | The Biological Bulletin. 231:207-215 |
| ISSN: | 1939-8697 0006-3185 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/691068 |
| Popis: | Wave-swept shores are valuable for developing and testing key ecological principles. A synthesis of research is nonetheless missing a critical component: the chemosensory basis for behavioral interactions that determine population- and community-wide attributes. Chemical signaling environments on wave-swept shores, given their intense, turbulent mixing and complex topographies, would be difficult or impossible to simulate in a laboratory setting. For this reason, appropriately scaled field studies are needed to advance understanding of chemical stimuli and their biotic effects. Here, we performed a field investigation to establish the relative roles of dissolved and contact cues in predation by whelks (Acanthinucella spirata) on barnacles (Balanus glandula), their preferred prey. Experiments tested responses of whelks to seawater drawn above dense prey patches (10,240–12,180 barnacles m−2) and also over adjacent sand flats (no prey present). There was no evidence of waterborne stimuli associated w... |
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