Copper Pollution Increases the Relative Importance of Predation Risk in an Aquatic Food Web.

Although the cascading impact of predators depends critically on the relative role of lethal predation and predation risk, we lack an understanding of how human-caused stressors may shift this balance. Emergent evidence suggests that pollution may increase the importance of predator consumptive effe...

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Main Authors: Christopher Kent Kwan, Eric Sanford, Jeremy Long
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4501717?pdf=render