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Salamanders are relevant components of many terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. However, despite the importance of salamanders in many resource–consumer networks, their functional role remains remarkably understudied. Therefore, this volume, entitled The Ecological Role of Salamanders as Prey and Predators, provides an opportunity for researchers to highlight the new research on the ecological role of salamanders and newts in prey–predator systems, their trophic behavior, and the variability of their trophic niche in space and time. Various innovative methods, such as COI metabarcoding and network analysis, are applied in the present study to test both the classical and new hypotheses concerning the trophic ecology of salamanders and their interactions with their prey. The present volume is composed of one review and seven research papers, all of which are published after undergoing a complete and impartial peer-review process.

artificial cave --- ecotone --- prey-predator system --- salamanders --- Speleomantes --- subterranean habitat --- amphibia --- energy flow --- habitat coupling --- predator–prey interactions --- top–down control --- trophic cascades --- trophic ecology --- Urodela --- cave biology --- prey --- hypogean --- underground --- stygofauna --- Monolistra --- Sphaeromatidae --- Niphargus --- flatworm --- aqueduct --- seepage --- individual diet specialization --- ecological opportunity --- diet --- plethodontid --- community ecology --- Triturus --- Lissotriton --- coexisting species --- trophic niche --- niche width --- niche variation hypothesis --- amphibians --- feeding ecology --- individual specialization --- resource selection --- Hydromantes --- body condition --- biospeleology --- parental species --- size --- capture-mark-recapture --- COI --- DNA metabarcoding --- n/a --- predator-prey interactions --- top-down control

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Salamanders are relevant components of many terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. However, despite the importance of salamanders in many resource–consumer networks, their functional role remains remarkably understudied. Therefore, this volume, entitled The Ecological Role of Salamanders as Prey and Predators, provides an opportunity for researchers to highlight the new research on the ecological role of salamanders and newts in prey–predator systems, their trophic behavior, and the variability of their trophic niche in space and time. Various innovative methods, such as COI metabarcoding and network analysis, are applied in the present study to test both the classical and new hypotheses concerning the trophic ecology of salamanders and their interactions with their prey. The present volume is composed of one review and seven research papers, all of which are published after undergoing a complete and impartial peer-review process.

Research & information: general --- artificial cave --- ecotone --- prey-predator system --- salamanders --- Speleomantes --- subterranean habitat --- amphibia --- energy flow --- habitat coupling --- predator-prey interactions --- top-down control --- trophic cascades --- trophic ecology --- Urodela --- cave biology --- prey --- hypogean --- underground --- stygofauna --- Monolistra --- Sphaeromatidae --- Niphargus --- flatworm --- aqueduct --- seepage --- individual diet specialization --- ecological opportunity --- diet --- plethodontid --- community ecology --- Triturus --- Lissotriton --- coexisting species --- trophic niche --- niche width --- niche variation hypothesis --- amphibians --- feeding ecology --- individual specialization --- resource selection --- Hydromantes --- body condition --- biospeleology --- parental species --- size --- capture-mark-recapture --- COI --- DNA metabarcoding --- artificial cave --- ecotone --- prey-predator system --- salamanders --- Speleomantes --- subterranean habitat --- amphibia --- energy flow --- habitat coupling --- predator-prey interactions --- top-down control --- trophic cascades --- trophic ecology --- Urodela --- cave biology --- prey --- hypogean --- underground --- stygofauna --- Monolistra --- Sphaeromatidae --- Niphargus --- flatworm --- aqueduct --- seepage --- individual diet specialization --- ecological opportunity --- diet --- plethodontid --- community ecology --- Triturus --- Lissotriton --- coexisting species --- trophic niche --- niche width --- niche variation hypothesis --- amphibians --- feeding ecology --- individual specialization --- resource selection --- Hydromantes --- body condition --- biospeleology --- parental species --- size --- capture-mark-recapture --- COI --- DNA metabarcoding

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The classic literature on predation dealt almost exclusively with solitary predators and their prey. Going back to Lotka-Volterra and optimal foraging theory, the theory about predation, including predator-prey population dynamics, was developed for solitary species. Various consequences of sociality for predators have been considered only recently. Similarly, while it was long recognized that prey species can benefit from living in groups, research on the adaptive value of sociality for prey species mostly emerged in the 1970's. The main theme of this book is the various ways that predators

Predation (Biology) --- Animal communities. --- Communities, Animal --- Animal ecology --- Biotic communities --- Communities, Predator-prey --- Dynamics, Predator-prey --- Interactions, Predator-prey --- Predator-prey communities --- Predator-prey dynamics --- Predator-prey interactions --- Predator-prey relations --- Predator-prey relationships --- Predator-prey systems --- Predators and prey --- Predatory behavior (Biology) --- Predatory-prey relationships --- Prey and predators --- Prey-predator relationships --- Preying (Biology) --- Relations, Predator-prey --- Relationships, Predator-prey --- Systems, Predator-prey --- Animals --- Parasitism --- Food

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Val Plumwood was an eminent environmental philosopher and activist who was prominent in the development of radical ecophilosophy from the early 1970s

Zoology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Animal Behavior --- Predation (Biology) --- Mathematical models. --- Communities, Predator-prey --- Dynamics, Predator-prey --- Interactions, Predator-prey --- Predator-prey communities --- Predator-prey dynamics --- Predator-prey interactions --- Predator-prey relations --- Predator-prey relationships --- Predator-prey systems --- Predators and prey --- Predatory behavior (Biology) --- Predatory-prey relationships --- Prey and predators --- Prey-predator relationships --- Preying (Biology) --- Relations, Predator-prey --- Relationships, Predator-prey --- Systems, Predator-prey --- Animal ecology --- Animals --- Parasitism --- Food --- eco-philosophy --- eco-feminism --- Crocodile --- Dualisms --- Ecology --- Ontology --- Predation --- Veganism --- Western culture

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Understanding the functioning of ecosystems requires the understanding of the interactions between consumer species and their resources. How do these interactions affect the variations of population abundances? How do population abundances determine the impact of predators on their prey? The view defended in this book is that the ""null model"" that most ecologists tend to use is inappropriate because it assumes that the amount of prey consumed by each predator is insensitive to the number of conspecifics. The authors argue that the amount of prey available per predator, rather than the absolu

Predation (Biology) --- Food chains (Ecology) --- Food webs (Ecology) --- Trophic ecology --- Animals --- Ecology --- Nutrient cycles --- Communities, Predator-prey --- Dynamics, Predator-prey --- Interactions, Predator-prey --- Predator-prey communities --- Predator-prey dynamics --- Predator-prey interactions --- Predator-prey relations --- Predator-prey relationships --- Predator-prey systems --- Predators and prey --- Predatory behavior (Biology) --- Predatory-prey relationships --- Prey and predators --- Prey-predator relationships --- Preying (Biology) --- Relations, Predator-prey --- Relationships, Predator-prey --- Systems, Predator-prey --- Animal ecology --- Parasitism --- Mathematical models. --- Food