2024
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.4429
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Measuring the benefit of a defensive trait: Vigilance and survival probability

William H. Ellsworth,
Scott D. Peacor,
Richard B. Chandler
et al.

Abstract: Defensive traits are hypothesized to benefit prey by reducing predation risk from a focal predator but come at a cost to the fitness of the prey. Variation in the expression of defensive traits is seen among individuals within the same population, and in the same individual in response to changes in the environment (i.e., phenotypically plastic responses). It is the relative magnitude of the cost and benefit of the defensive trait that underlies the defensive trait expression and its consequences to the commun… Show more

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