Fungi, feather damage, and risk of predation
Abstract Predation is a powerful selective force with important effects on behavior, morphology, life history, and evolution of prey. Parasites may change body condition, health status, and ability to escape from or defend prey against predators. Once a prey individual has been detected, it can rely...
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crwiley:10.1002/ece3.3582 2024-06-23T07:44:53+00:00 Fungi, feather damage, and risk of predation Al Rubaiee, Zaid Al Murayati, Haider Nielsen, Jan Tøttrup Møller, Anders Pape 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3582 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fece3.3582 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ece3.3582 en eng Wiley http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ecology and Evolution volume 7, issue 24, page 10797-10803 ISSN 2045-7758 2045-7758 journal-article 2017 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3582 2024-05-31T08:12:14Z Abstract Predation is a powerful selective force with important effects on behavior, morphology, life history, and evolution of prey. Parasites may change body condition, health status, and ability to escape from or defend prey against predators. Once a prey individual has been detected, it can rely on a diversity of means of escape from the pursuit by the predator. Here we tested whether prey of a common raptor differed in terms of fungi from nonprey recorded at the same sites using the goshawk Accipiter gentilis and its avian prey as a model system. We found a positive association between the probability of falling prey to the raptor and the presence and the abundance of fungi. Birds with a specific composition of the community of fungi had higher probability of falling prey to a goshawk than individual hosts with fewer fungi. These findings imply that fungi may play a significant role in predator–prey interactions. The probability of having damaged feathers increased with the number of fungal colonies, and in particular the abundance of Myceliophthora verrucos and Schizophyllum sp. was positively related to the probability of having damaged feathers. In addition, we found a significant correlation between the rate of feather growth of goshawk prey with birds with more fungi being more likely to be depredated. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that survival and feather quality of birds are related to abundance and diversity of fungi. Article in Journal/Newspaper Accipiter gentilis Wiley Online Library Ecology and Evolution 7 24 10797 10803 |
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Abstract Predation is a powerful selective force with important effects on behavior, morphology, life history, and evolution of prey. Parasites may change body condition, health status, and ability to escape from or defend prey against predators. Once a prey individual has been detected, it can rely on a diversity of means of escape from the pursuit by the predator. Here we tested whether prey of a common raptor differed in terms of fungi from nonprey recorded at the same sites using the goshawk Accipiter gentilis and its avian prey as a model system. We found a positive association between the probability of falling prey to the raptor and the presence and the abundance of fungi. Birds with a specific composition of the community of fungi had higher probability of falling prey to a goshawk than individual hosts with fewer fungi. These findings imply that fungi may play a significant role in predator–prey interactions. The probability of having damaged feathers increased with the number of fungal colonies, and in particular the abundance of Myceliophthora verrucos and Schizophyllum sp. was positively related to the probability of having damaged feathers. In addition, we found a significant correlation between the rate of feather growth of goshawk prey with birds with more fungi being more likely to be depredated. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that survival and feather quality of birds are related to abundance and diversity of fungi. |
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Fungi, feather damage, and risk of predation |
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Fungi, feather damage, and risk of predation |
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Fungi, feather damage, and risk of predation |
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Ecology and Evolution volume 7, issue 24, page 10797-10803 ISSN 2045-7758 2045-7758 |
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