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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"inducible defenses"”.
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The maintenance, evolution, and impacts of inducible morphological defenses in Mytilus edulis: Responses to multiple and invasive predators
… burgeoning field of phenotypic plasticity and inducible defenses has documented a wide variety of predator-induced defenses. I this dissertation I have explored induced defenses in the marine mussel Mytilus edulis as they are affected by (a) shared evolutionary history with invasive crab …
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Inducible Chemical Defenses in Temperate Reef Sponges of the South Atlantic Bight, U.S.A.
<p>Sessile organisms employing inducible defenses may receive protection from consumers while simultaneously minimizing the metabolic costs of maintaining these defenses. To investigate if reef sponges in the South Atlantic Bight employ inducible chemical defenses, I tested two predictions with …
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Phenotypic plasticity from a predator perspective: empirical and theoretical investigations
… common in predator-prey interactions. Prey use inducible defenses to increase their chances of survival in periods of high predation risk. Predators, in turn, display inducible offenses (trophic polyphenisms) and adjust their phenotypes to the prevailing type of prey. In the past, inducible …
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Costs and benefits of Daphnia antipredator behavior and consequences on community stability
… caused by costs and benefits of antipredator defenses and to study their implications for community stability, I used the planktivorous fish - Chaoborus - Daphnia system. In the laboratory, I found that clonal variance of Daphnia antipredator defenses was high, and that behavioral, …