The ability of females to select oviposition sites based on risk of predation to their progeny
should be of high selective value. Such behavior should also have large consequences for …

There are growing concerns about the impacts of neonicotinoid insecticides on ecosystems
worldwide, and yet ecotoxicity of many of these chemicals at community or ecosystem levels …

We investigated the effects of the predatory backswimmer, Anisops sardea, on oviposition
habitat selection of mosquitoes and other dipterans, and on community structure in …

Chemical-mediated effects of predatory fish on chironomid larvae behaviour have been
ignored so far. Sediment-dwelling chironomid larvae inhabit protective burrows from which …

The chances of prey to survive and leave viable offspring may be determined by many
environmental constraints, of which food conditions may be of key importance. When food is …

Sediment‐dwelling zoobenthos stimulate the mineralization of organic matter and alter
nutrient cycling by aerating the sediment via burrows, by feeding on detritus, and by …

Competition is predicted to affect the expression of inducible defenses, but because costs of
behavioral and morphological antipredator defenses differ along resource gradients, its …

Hosts that are infected by parasitoids pay the ultimate cost: death. Here we investigate
whether hosts can combat the lethal effects of parasitoids by enhancing their grooming …

In addition to having constitutive defence traits, many organisms also respond to predation
by phenotypic plasticity. In order for plasticity to be adaptive, induced defences should incur …

Four submerged macrophytes were analysed with their respective assemblages of
chironomid and algal taxa. Studies were made bimonthly, from January to November, in a …