At the level of the community, predation reduces the number of individuals in the prey population. The best-known examples of predation involve carnivorous interactions, in which one animal ...

For example, red foxes (Vulpes vulpes ... closely following the abundance of voles. As predator populations increase, they put greater strain on the prey populations and act as a top-down control ...

Across 115 degrees of latitude, spanning most of North and South America, higher ocean temperatures correlate with more intense predation by fish and shifts in invertebrate prey communities, according ...

Elimination of top predators (e.g. wolves) from regions like the Greater ... and was improved by input from students in that course. Use of teaching examples of this sort was inspired by mentors like ...

Scharfstein, David S., and Patrick Bolton. "A Theory of Predation Based on Agency Problems in Financial Contracting." American Economic Review 80, no. 1 (March 1990).