Predicting population-level risk effects of predation from the responses of individuals

• Published in: Ecology
• Main Authors: MacLeod, Colin D., MacLeod, Ross, Learmonth, Jennifer A., Cresswell, Will, Pierce, Graham J.
• Other Authors: University of Aberdeen.Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS), University of Aberdeen.Biological Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: bottlenose dolphin; Tursiops truncates; harbor porpoise; Phocoena phocoena; indirect effects individual-based theory; lethal porpoise dolphin interactions; mass-dependent predation risk; nonconsumptive effects; nonlethal predator effects; sandeel; Ammodytes marinus; Scotland; starvation-predation risk trade-off; mediated indirect interactions; bottle-nosed dolphins; harbor porpoises; body-mass; wintering birds; violent interactions; relative importance; Parus-Major; trade-off; QH301 Biology; QH301
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2164/5731; https://doi.org/10.1890/13-1795.1

Date of Acceptance: 17/12/2014 This work formed part of the EU-funded BIOCET project (Bioaccumulation of persistent organic pollutants in small cetaceans in European waters: transport pathways and impact on reproduction, EVK3-2000-00027). We are grateful to our Project Officer, Cathy Eccles, for her support. The UK marine mammal strandings program, funded by DEFRA as part of its commitment to the Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic and North Seas, supported attendance at strandings and necropsies. We thank Tony Patterson and Robert Reid for their contributions to data collection in Scotland. R. MacLeod is supported by a Royal Society of Edinburgh Scottish Government Research Fellowship. C. D. MacLeod and R. MacLeod contributed equally to this study and are regarded as joint first authors. Peer reviewed