Search Results - "Fraker, E."

Eutrophication, water quality, and fisheries: a wicked management problem with insights from a century of change in Lake Erie by Sinclair, James, Fraker, Michael, Hood, James, Reavie, Euan, Ludsin, Stuart

“…Human-driven nutrient inputs into aquatic ecosystems must be managed to preserve biodiversity and to ensure that valued fishery and water quality services are…”
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Stress hormone-mediated antipredator morphology improves escape performance in amphibian tadpoles by Fraker, Michael E., Ludsin, Stuart A., Luttbeg, Barney, Denver, Robert J.

“…Complete functional descriptions of the induction sequences of phenotypically plastic traits (perception to physiological regulation to response to outcome)…”
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Anthropogenic change decouples a freshwater predator’s density feedback by Sinclair, J. S., Briland, R., Fraker, M. E., Hood, J. M., Frank, K. T., Faust, M. D., Knight, C., Ludsin, S. A.

“…Intraspecific interactions within predator populations can affect predator–prey dynamics and community structure, highlighting the need to better understand…”
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dynamics of predation risk assessment: responses of anuran larvae to chemical cues of predators by Fraker, Michael E.

“…1. While the antipredator behaviour of prey has been well studied, little is known about the rules governing the predation risk assessment of prey. In this…”
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The Effect of Hunger on the Strength and Duration of the Antipredator Behavioral Response of Green Frog (Rana clamitans) Tadpoles by Fraker, Michael E.

“…The activity level of prey reflects a trade-off between predation risk and foraging gain. A number of theoretical and empirical studies have shown that a…”
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Characterization of an alarm pheromone secreted by amphibian tadpoles that induces behavioral inhibition and suppression of the neuroendocrine stress axis by Fraker, Michael E., Hu, Fang, Cuddapah, Vindhya, McCollum, S. Andy, Relyea, Rick A., Hempel, John, Denver, Robert J.

“…Many species assess predation risk through chemical cues, but the tissue source, chemical nature, and mechanisms of production or action of these cues are…”
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Eurotiomycetes: Eurotiomycetidae and Chaetothyriomycetidae by Geiser, D. M., Gueidan, C., Miadlikowska, J., Lutzoni, F., Kauff, F., Hofstetter, V., Fraker, E., Schoch, C. L., Tibell, L., Untereiner, W. A., Aptroot, A.

“…The class Eurotiomycetes (Ascomycota, Pezizomycotina) is a monophyletic group comprising two major clades of very different ascomycetous fungi: (i) the…”
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The Influence of the Circadian Rhythm of Green Frog (Rana clamitans) Tadpoles on Their Antipredator Behavior and the Strength of the Nonlethal Effects of Predators by Fraker, Michael E.

“…Prey trade off predation risk and foraging gain in their activity level. Their response to this trade‐off mediates direct and indirect interactions between…”
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Particle backtracking improves breeding subpopulation discrimination and natal-source identification in mixed populations by Fraker, Michael E, Anderson, Eric J, Brodnik, Reed M, Carreon-Martinez, Lucia, DeVanna, Kristen M, Fryer, Brian J, Heath, Daniel D, Reichert, Julie M, Ludsin, Stuart A

“…We provide a novel method to improve the use of natural tagging approaches for subpopulation discrimination and source-origin identification in aquatic and…”
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Predator-prey space use and the spatial distribution of predation events by Fraker, Michael E, Luttbeg, Barney

“…In many systems, predators and prey interact spatially. A number of game theoretic models (joint ideal free distributions, IFD) have suggested that a…”
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On the use and evaluation of prospective scan methods for health-related surveillance by Woodall, William H, Brooke Marshall, J, Joner Jr, Michael D, Fraker, Shannon E, Abdel-Salam, Abdel-Salam G

“…We review some prospective scan-based methods that are used in health-related applications to detect increased rates of mortality or morbidity and to detect…”
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Functional traits reveal the dominant drivers of long‐term community change across a North American Great Lake by Sinclair, James S., Fraker, Michael E., Hood, James M., Frank, Kenneth T., DuFour, Mark R., Gorman, Ann Marie, Ludsin, Stuart A.

“…Ecosystems worldwide have been impacted by multiple anthropogenic stressors, yet efforts to understand and manage these impacts have been hindered by…”
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Temporal scope influences ecosystem driver-response relationships: A case study of Lake Erie with implications for ecosystem-based management by Fraker, Michael E., Sinclair, James S., Frank, Kenneth T., Hood, James M., Ludsin, Stuart A.

“…Understanding environmental driver-response relationships is critical to the implementation of effective ecosystem-based management. Ecosystems are often…”
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Projecting the effects of agricultural conservation practices on stream fish communities in a changing climate by Fraker, Michael E., Keitzer, S. Conor, Sinclair, James S., Aloysius, Noel R., Dippold, David A., Yen, Haw, Arnold, Jeffrey G., Daggupati, Prasad, Johnson, Mari-Vaughn V., Martin, Jay F., Robertson, Dale M., Sowa, Scott P., White, Michael J., Ludsin, Stuart A.

“…How anticipated climate change might affect long-term outcomes of present-day agricultural conservation practices remains a key uncertainty that could benefit…”
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Forecasting the combined effects of anticipated climate change and agricultural conservation practices on fish recruitment dynamics in Lake Erie by Dippold, David A., Aloysius, Noel R., Keitzer, Steven Conor, Yen, Haw, Arnold, Jeffrey G., Daggupati, Prasad, Fraker, Michael E., Martin, Jay F., Robertson, Dale M., Sowa, Scott P., Johnson, Mari‐Vaughn V., White, Mike J., Ludsin, Stuart A.

“…Many aquatic ecosystems are experiencing multiple anthropogenic stressors that threaten their ability to support ecologically and economically important fish…”
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effect of prior experience on a prey's current perceived risk by Fraker, Michael E

“…The prior experience of prey may influence how they assess the level of predation risk associated with an information source. Here, I present the results from…”
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Effects of perceptual and movement ranges on joint predator-prey distributions by Fraker, Michael E., Luttbeg, Barney

“…We developed a spatially-explicit individual-based model to study how limited perceptual and movement ranges affect spatial predator-prey interactions. Earlier…”
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Feasibility of implementing an integrated long-term database to advance ecosystem-based management in the Laurentian Great Lakes basin by Budnik, Richard R., Frank, Kenneth T., Collis, Lyndsie M., Fraker, Michael E., Mason, Lacey A., Muir, Andrew M., Pothoven, Steven A., Clapp, David F., Collingsworth, Paris D., Hoffman, Joel C., Hood, James M., Johnson, Timothy B., Koops, Marten A., Rudstam, Lars G., Ludsin, Stuart A.

“…The North American Great Lakes have been experiencing dramatic change during the past half-century, highlighting the need for holistic, ecosystem-based…”
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Space Use of Predatory Larval Dragonflies and Tadpole Prey in Response to Chemical Cues of Predation by Brown, Taylor A, Fraker, Michael E, Ludsin, Stuart A

“…Chemical cues are frequently a key source of information to aquatic organisms. Both predators (kairomones digestive metabolites) and prey (alarm and…”
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Statistical tests for biological interactions: A comparison of permutation tests and analysis of variance by Fraker, Michael E., Peacor, Scott D.

“…Interaction terms from statistical tests are often used to make inferences about biological processes. For interaction terms to be biologically meaningful, it…”
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