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Yutaka Saito Anthony R. Chittenden Kotaro Mori Katsura Ito Atsushi Yamauchi 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2008,63(1):33-42
The number of nests containing egg masses a female makes over her lifetime and the pattern of scattering nests vary among
species in a genus of nest-weaving spider mites (Stigmaeopsis). We hypothesized that the scattered nests of small nest builders have a previously overlooked indirect effect in that the
void nests created after predation take on a new role as hindering devices that effectively decrease predator searching efficiency.
First, we demonstrated that the experimental design used in this study is a good reflection of the nest distribution pattern
of Stigmaeopsis takahashii (an intermediate-sized nest builder) in the field. Using this species as a model, we tested how different nest-scattering
patterns affect the predator to examine how scattering may indirectly provide an anti-predation strategy by increasing a predators
searching time. Next, we observed how artificially arranged void nests disturb predatory behavior in both starved and fully
fed predator females and showed that void nests have a strong hindering effect on predators. Thus, we concluded that the nesting
behavior of this mite species not only has anti-predator effects but must also have a stabilizing effect on predator–prey
interaction systems at the population level. 相似文献
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