A salty landscape of fear responses of fish and zooplankton to freshwater salinization and predatory stress

• Published in: Oecologia Vol. 185; no. 1; pp. 147 - 156
• Main Authors: Hintz, William D., Relyea, Rick A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Science + Business Media 01.09.2017; Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Abundance; Adaptation; additive effect; Additives; aggression; Alarm systems; Animals; Anthropogenic factors; anthropogenic stressors; Aquatic ecosystems; Behavior; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Community ecology; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY – ORIGINAL RESEARCH; Contaminants; Control; Cues; Daphnia; Daphnia - physiology; Daphnia pulex; Dynamics; Ecology; Ecosystems; Energy flow; Fish; Fishes; Food Chain; Food chains; Food webs; Fresh water; Fresh Water - chemistry; Freshwater; Freshwater crustaceans; Freshwater ecosystems; Freshwater fish; Freshwater fishes; Freshwater organisms; Human influences; Hydrology/Water Resources; Inland water environment; Interactive control; Kairomones; Life Sciences; Oncorhynchus mykiss; Oncorhynchus mykiss - physiology; Pheromones; Plankton; Plant Sciences; Population dynamics; Predator-prey interactions; predator-prey relationships; Predators; Predatory Behavior; Prey; Reproduction; Reproduction (biology); Reproduction - physiology; Road salt; Roads & highways; Salinity; Salinization; Salmon; salt concentration; Salts; Sexual reproduction; Shoaling; Sodium chloride; Sodium Chloride - toxicity; Soil salinity; Stresses; Trout; Trucking industry; water salinization; Zooplankton; Zooplankton - physiology; Deicing; Road salt; Community interactions; Sub-lethal effects; Land use

Predator–prey relationships are altered by anthropogenic contaminants. Road salt is a widespread contaminant among freshwater ecosystems, yet a relatively understudied subject in community ecology. Unknown is whether road salt salinization interacts with predatory stress to influence the growth, beh...