Migratory coupling between predators and prey

摘要: Animal migrations act to couple ecosystems and are undertaken by some of the world’s most endangered taxa. Predators often exploit migrant prey, but movements taken these consumers rarely studied or understood. We define such movements, where prey induce large-scale predators, as migratory coupling. Migratory coupling can have ecological consequences for participating predators communities they traverse across landscape. review examples in literature provide hypotheses regarding conditions favourable their occurrence. also a framework interactions induced demonstrate potential community-level impacts examining other forms spatial shifts predators. integrates fields landscape, movement, food web community ecologies, represents an understudied frontier ecology. species exploited resident Here, authors extent which outline coupled migrations.