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1. Full Text Animal Migration and Infectious Disease Risk
by Sonia Altizer and Rebecca Bartel and Barbara A. Han
Science, ISSN 0036-8075, 1/2011, Volume 331, Issue 6015, pp. 296 - 302
Animal migrations are often spectacular, and migratory species harbor zoonotic pathogens of importance to humans. Animal migrations are expected to enhance the... 
Pathogens | Seasonal migration | Animals | Breeding sites | Population migration | REVIEW | Infections | Parasites | Parasite migration | Parasite hosts | Animal migration behavior | DISPERSAL | TRANSMISSION | VIRUS-INFECTION | NATURAL-POPULATIONS | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | HOST MIGRATION | WILDLIFE | IMMUNE FUNCTION | PREDATION RISK | PARASITE | SPREAD | Communicable Diseases - transmission | Disease Susceptibility | Communicable Diseases - epidemiology | Humans | Risk | Immunity | Biological Evolution | Climate Change | Models, Biological | Ecosystem | Communicable Diseases - immunology | Animal Migration | Human Activities | Communicable Diseases - veterinary | Disease transmission | Animal migration | Health aspects | Risk factors | Animal diseases | Infectious diseases | Human | Dynamic tests | Mortality | Migration | Evolution | Wildlife management
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2. Full Text Risk, resources and state-dependent adaptive behavioural syndromes
by Barney Luttbeg and Andrew Sih
Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, ISSN 0962-8436, 12/2010, Volume 365, Issue 1560, pp. 3977 - 3990
Many animals exhibit behavioural syndromes—consistent individual differences in behaviour across two or more contexts or situations. Here, we present adaptive,... 
Natural resources | Starvation | Ecological modeling | Animals | Ecological genetics | Wolves | Foraging | Human aggression | Predation | Bleeding time | Behavioural syndromes | Animal personality | Boldness | Predation risk | State-dependent behaviour | State-dependent safety | ANIMAL PERSONALITIES | predation risk | 3-SPINED STICKLEBACK | GASTEROSTEUS-ACULEATUS | BIGHORN EWES | animal personality | DOLOMEDES-TRITON | INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES | TRADE-OFF | ANTIPREDATOR BEHAVIOR | FITNESS CONSEQUENCES | state-dependent safety | BIOLOGY | state-dependent behaviour | LIFE-HISTORY | boldness | behavioural syndromes | Behavior, Animal | Predatory Behavior | Behavioral Research | Risk Factors | Models, Psychological | Ecological and Environmental Phenomena | Feedback, Psychological | Adaptation, Psychological | 1001
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3. Full Text Group-Size-Mediated Habitat Selection and Group Fusion-Fission Dynamics of Bison under Predation Risk
by Daniel Fortin and Marie-Eve Fortin and Hawthorne L. Beyer and Thierry Duchesne and Sabrina Courant and Karine Dancose
Ecology, ISSN 0012-9658, 9/2009, Volume 90, Issue 9, pp. 2480 - 2490
For gregarious animals the cost-benefit trade-offs that drive habitat selection may vary dynamically with group size, which plays an important role in foraging... 
National parks | Winter | Foraging | Vegetation | Bison | Group size | Summer | Habitat selection | Meadows | Perceptual localization | exploitative competition | habitat selection | Canada | Bison bison | group size effects | predation risk | conditional logistic regression | resource selection function | free-ranging plains bison | Saskatchewan | GPS radio collars | Prince Albert National Park | Conditional logistic regression | Exploitative competition | Prince albert national park | Gps radio collars | Canada; resource selection function | Free-ranging plains bison | Predation risk | Group size effects | MULTIPLE SPATIAL SCALES | LANDSCAPE | ROCKY-MOUNTAIN ELK | ROE DEER | MAMMALIAN HERBIVORES | FUNCTIONAL-RESPONSE | SERENGETI GRAZERS | SOCIAL COHESION | Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan, Canada | YELLOWSTONE-NATIONAL-PARK | ECOLOGY | RESOURCE SELECTION | Bison - physiology | Predatory Behavior - physiology | Animals | Time Factors | Models, Biological | Social Behavior | Ecosystem | Wolves - physiology | Seasons | Population Dynamics | Research | Behavior | Territoriality (Zoology)
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4. Full Text Relationships between direct predation and risk effects
by Creel, Scott and Christianson, David
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, ISSN 0169-5347, 2008, Volume 23, Issue 4, pp. 194 - 201
Risk effects arise when prey alter their behavior in response to predators, and these responses carry costs. Empirical studies have found that risk effects can... 
SNOWSHOE HARE CYCLE | MOOSE POPULATIONS | TEMPORAL VARIATION | PREY INTERACTIONS | EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY | ANTIPREDATOR BEHAVIOR | ALLOCATION HYPOTHESIS | MEDIATED INDIRECT INTERACTIONS | GENETICS & HEREDITY | YELLOWSTONE-NATIONAL-PARK | ECOLOGY | ARCTIC GROUND-SQUIRRELS | POPULATION-DYNAMICS | Biological Evolution | Food Chain | Predatory Behavior | Animals | Ecosystem | Population Density | Safety | Population Dynamics | Predation (Biology)
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5. Predation risk and behavioural adaptations of prey
: ecological and evolutionary consequences : symposium held at Konnevesi Research Station, 25-29 November 1991
by Ylonen, H and Magnhagen, C
1992, 29(4), Volume 29(4), 179-320.
interspecific relationships | predation | conferences
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6. Full Text Multiscale Wolf Predation Risk for Elk: Does Migration Reduce Risk?
by Mark Hebblewhite and Evelyn H. Merrill
Oecologia, ISSN 0029-8549, 5/2007, Volume 152, Issue 2, pp. 377 - 387
While migration is hypothesized to reduce predation risk for ungulates, there have been few direct empirical tests of this hypothesis. Furthermore, few studies... 
National parks | Behavioral Ecology | Predators | Wolves | Ungulates | Mortality | Predation | Habitat selection | Spatial models | Elks | Homes | Life Sciences | Predator avoidance | Partial migration | Human–wildlife relationships | Resource selection | Ecology | Antipredator behavior | Plant Sciences | Human-wildlife relationships | WOLVES | MOVEMENTS | predator avoidance | WOODLAND CARIBOU | HABITAT SELECTION | RESPONSES | TRADE-OFF | human-wildlife relationships | resource selection | HOME-RANGE | antipredator behavior | partial migration | YELLOWSTONE-NATIONAL-PARK | ECOLOGY | TROPHIC CASCADE | RESOURCE SELECTION FUNCTIONS | Predatory Behavior - physiology | Animals | Deer - physiology | Risk Factors | Wolves - physiology | Animal Migration | Population Dynamics | Birds | Risk exposure | Animal behavior
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7. A risk analysis of the potential effects of selective and non-selective reductions in grey seal abundance on the population status of two species at risk of extirpation, white hake and winter skate in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence
: Une analyse de risque des effets possible d'une réduction sélective ou non-sélective de l'abondance du phoque gris sur le statut de conservation de deux espèces à risque de disparaîre, la merluche blanche et la raie tachetée du sud du golfe du Saint-Laurent
by Benoît, H.P and Swain, D.P and Hammill, M.O and Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat and Canada. Ministère des pêches et des océans and Canada. Department of Fisheries and Oceans and Secrétariat canadien de consultation scientifique
2011, 2011/033, Volume 2011/033., iv, 30
Winter skate (Leucoraja ocellata) and white hake (Urophycis tenuis) both have populations that are endemic to the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence (sGSL). The... 
predator control | predators | biomass | marine water | culling | Urophycis tenuis | marine mammals | Leucoraja ocellata | predation | population number | shark fisheries | predator prey interactions | ecosystem management | ecosystems | rare species | mortality | Halichoerus grypus | ANW, St. Lawrence Gulf | fishery management | gadoid fisheries
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8. Full Text Lévy Walks Suboptimal under Predation Risk
by Abe, Masato S and Shimada, Masakazu
PLoS Computational Biology, ISSN 1553-734X, 11/2015, Volume 11, Issue 11, p. e1004601
A key challenge in movement ecology is to understand how animals move in nature. Previous studies have predicted that animals should perform a special class of... 
ANIMAL BEHAVIOR | SEARCH STRATEGIES | SUCCESS | PREY | FLIGHT | MOVEMENT PATTERNS | BIOCHEMICAL RESEARCH METHODS | MATHEMATICAL & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY | DYNAMICS | SPONTANEOUS BEHAVIOR | DROSOPHILA | PARADIGM | Predatory Behavior - physiology | Algorithms | Animals | Movement | Models, Biological | Computer Simulation | Computational Biology | Risk | Predation (Biology) | DNA binding proteins | Research | Studies | Hypotheses | Predation | Gene expression | Animal behavior | Efficiency
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9. Full Text Perceived Predation Risk Reduces the Number of Offspring Songbirds Produce per Year
by Liana Y. Zanette and Aija F. White and Marek C. Allen and Michael Clinchy
Science, ISSN 0036-8075, 12/2011, Volume 334, Issue 6061, pp. 1398 - 1401
Predator effects on prey demography have traditionally been ascribed solely to direct killing in studies of population ecology and wildlife management.... 
Animal nesting | Predators | Demography | REPORTS | Sparrows | Breeding seasons | Female animals | Wildlife management | Egg masses | Songbirds | Eggs | MELOSPIZA-MELODIA | NUTRITIONAL STRESS | SONG SPARROWS | SIBERIAN JAY | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | NEST PREDATION | CLUTCH SIZE | EGG-PRODUCTION | BIRDS | FOOD | PLASTICITY | Nesting Behavior | Predatory Behavior | Population Growth | Vocalization, Animal | Male | Risk | Fear | Reproduction | Animals | Female | Perception | Oviposition | Seasons | Sparrows - physiology | Population Dynamics | Population ecology | Predation (Biology) | Research | Animal reproduction | Perceptions | Birds | Predation | Animal behavior | Risk factors
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10. Full Text Does moonlight increase predation risk? Meta‐analysis reveals divergent responses of nocturnal mammals to lunar cycles
by Prugh, Laura R and Golden, Christopher D and Boutin, Stan
Journal of Animal Ecology, ISSN 0021-8790, 03/2014, Volume 83, Issue 2, pp. 504 - 514
The risk of predation strongly affects mammalian population dynamics and community interactions. Bright moonlight is widely believed to increase predation risk... 
giving‐up density | indirect effects | phylogenetic meta‐analysis | nocturnality | foraging efficiency | illumination | moonlight | predation risk | risk‐sensitive foraging | lunar cycles | Lunar cycles | Indirect effects | Nocturnality | Moonlight | Illumination | Giving-up density | Phylogenetic meta-analysis | Predation risk | Risk-sensitive foraging | Foraging efficiency | KANGAROO RATS | FORAGING BEHAVIOR | TROPHIC CASCADES | HETEROMYID RODENTS | OWL PREDATION | TEMPORAL VARIATION | risk-sensitive foraging | DESERT RODENT | EVOLUTION | ZOOLOGY | phylogenetic meta-analysis | MICROHABITAT USE | giving-up density | ECOLOGY | PATCH USE | Food Chain | Animals | Diet | Moon | Vision, Ocular | Ecosystem | Light | Mammals - physiology | Feeding Behavior | Phylogeny | Echolocation (Physiology) | Predation (Biology) | Phylogenetics | Predation | Mammals | Meta-analysis
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11. The Leatherback turtle
: aquatic species at risk
and Canadian Wildlife ServiceCanada. Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Communications Directorate
2002, Underwater world, ISBN 0662317807, Volume 65., 8 pages.
Unravelling the mysteries of the leatherback sea turtle's biology and behaviour is increasingly important because this animal, which has existed since the time... 
marine water | fishery protection | rare species | Dermochelys coriacea | predation | Canada Coasts | feeding behaviour | nesting | geographical distribution
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12. Full Text Marine mammals and sonar: Dose‐response studies, the risk‐disturbance hypothesis and the role of exposure context
by Harris, Catriona M and Thomas, Len and Falcone, Erin A and Hildebrand, John and Houser, Dorian and Kvadsheim, Petter H and Lam, Frans‐Peter A and Miller, Patrick J. O and Moretti, David J and Read, Andrew J and Slabbekoorn, Hans and Southall, Brandon L and Tyack, Peter L and Wartzok, Douglas and Janik, Vincent M and Blanchard, Julia
Journal of Applied Ecology, ISSN 0021-8901, 01/2018, Volume 55, Issue 1, pp. 396 - 404
Marine mammals may be negatively affected by anthropogenic noise. Behavioural response studies (BRS) aim to establish a relationship between noise exposure... 
behavioural response | anti‐predator response | marine mammals | human disturbance | sonar | cetaceans | dose‐response | anthropogenic noise | impact assessment | dose-response | anti-predator response | FORAGING BEHAVIOR | STARTLE REFLEX | SPERM-WHALES | SOUND EXPOSURE | BEHAVIORAL-RESPONSES | PORPOISE PHOCOENA-PHOCOENA | BEAKED-WHALE | ECOLOGY | BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION | FINNED PILOT WHALES | GLOBICEPHALA-MELAS | KILLER WHALES | Noise control | Cetacea | Noise levels | Uncertainty | Populations | Noise | Human influences | Terrestrial environments | Risk | Population studies | Acoustics | Marine mammals | Marine systems | Disturbance | Species | Monitoring | Sonar | Dose-response effects | Exposure | Anthropogenic factors | Hypotheses | Navy | Animals | Reviews | Animal behavior | Predation | Investment
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13. Full Text Tick‐borne disease risk in a forest food web
by Ostfeld, Richard S and Levi, Taal and Keesing, Felicia and Oggenfuss, Kelly and Canham, Charles D
Ecology, ISSN 0012-9658, 07/2018, Volume 99, Issue 7, pp. 1562 - 1573
Changes to the community ecology of hosts for zoonotic pathogens, particularly rodents, are likely to influence the emergence and prevalence of zoonotic... 
blacklegged tick | top‐down control | Lyme disease | predator | zoonoses | tick‐borne disease | bottom‐up control | white‐footed mouse | tick-borne disease | top-down control | white-footed mouse | bottom-up control | BORRELIA-BURGDORFERI | ZOONOTIC DISEASE | RESERVOIR COMPETENCE | INFECTIOUS-DISEASES | INTRAGUILD PREDATION | NYMPHAL IXODES-SCAPULARIS | HUMAN PATHOGENS | RANGE EXPANSION | ECOLOGY | LYME-DISEASE | ANAPLASMA-PHAGOCYTOPHILUM | Food Chain | New York | Forests | Ixodes | Animals | Mice | Tick-Borne Diseases | Animals as carriers of disease | Research | Ecological research | Forest ecology | Zoonoses | Abiotic factors | Communities | Ticks | Risk | Infections | Food webs | Epidemiology | Density | Food resources | Predators | Food chains | Rodents | Landscape epidemiology | Bacteria | Public health | Arachnids | Vector-borne diseases | Community structure | Pathogens | Health risks | Abundance | Vectors | Environmental risk | Variation
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