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Title: Feed or flee: Effect of a predation-risk cue on sea urchin foraging activity.
Authors: Harding, Adam P.C.1 apc.harding@gmail.com, Scheibling, Robert E.1
Source: Journal of Experimental Marine Biology & Ecology. May2015, Vol. 466, p59-69. 11p.
Subjects: Predation, Sea urchins, Foraging behavior, Echinodermata classification, Algae as food, Turbulent flow, Comparative studies
Abstract: We examined the potential for a trait-mediated indirect interaction (TMII), whereby a behavioural response to a predator (crab Cancer borealis ) alters the per capita effect of a reacting species (sea urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis ) on its algal food (kelp Saccharina latissima ), in field and laboratory experiments. We used time-lapse video to monitor sea urchin movement in response to either an attractant food cue (kelp) or a repellant predation-risk cue (crabs) placed in small cages at the centre of 7 m 2 circular plots in a wave-exposed sea urchin barrens off Nova Scotia. We found that sea urchins generally moved randomly over the rock substratum and showed a limited response to cues emanating from a cage with kelp, with a few individuals exhibiting directed movement towards kelp and greater proportion of urchins in contact with the cue cage (with kelp) compared to the control (without kelp) at the end of the experiment. Similarly, only a few individuals that came in close contact with a cage containing crabs showed a clear flight response, compared to the control. In experiments with individual kelp thalli that were systematically dispersed around the central cage in the same plots, we found that the presence of crabs in the cage did not reduce sea urchin grazing rates on kelp compared to a control without crabs. We observed similar results using a similar experimental design in large tanks (900 L) under controlled flow conditions in the laboratory. We conclude that C. borealis does not significantly inhibit the foraging activity of S. droebachiensis under turbulent flow conditions in nature, and that a TMII is unlikely to contribute to a trophic cascade in the shallow rocky subtidal zone of the Northwest Atlantic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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