Intraspecific food competition exerts powerful selective forces on all animals; successful
foragers thrive relative to weaker conspecifics. Understanding competition is therefore …

This Chapter summarises recent research on the interrelationships between social
behaviour and physiology in fish, discussing the physiological factors that determine social …

Scramble competition is related to animals depleting resources before others can use them,
whereas contest competition is associated with the monopolization of resources and …

We have developed a mathematical model which estimates the growth performance of
Atlantic salmon in aquaculture production units. The model consists of sub-models …

Accurately measuring productive capacity in streams is challenging, and field methods have
generally focused on the limiting role of physical habitat attributes (eg channel gradient …

Anthropogenic environments can offer rich sources of energy to urban wildlife, but little is
known about how they impact on nutritional balance and food selection. Common mynas …

Abstract In Australia, the introduced Common Myna (Acridotheres tristis) is commonly
believed to aggressively displace native birds and outcompete them for food and nest …

We examined the impact of dominance on crayfish social spacing and resource control.
Spatial distributions of individual crayfish, Orconectes propinquus, were recorded from five …

The non-native, aggressive, convict cichlid Amatitlania nigrofasciata is often regarded as a
cause for the decline of native Mexican mojarra Cichlasoma istlanum in Mexican rivers …

We explored the behavioral game between a predator, the little egret (Egretta garzetta), and
a prey, the common goldfish (Carassius auratus), in a laboratory theater containing three …