An emerging infectious disease triggering large-scale hyperpredation.

Hyperpredation refers to an enhanced predation pressure on a secondary prey due to either an increase in the abundance of a predator population or a sudden drop in the abundance of the main prey. This scarcely documented mechanism has been previously studied in scenarios in which the introduction of...

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Main Authors: Marcos Moleón, Pablo Almaraz, José A Sánchez-Zapata
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2390756?pdf=render