Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- PART I: The Nature of Predation and Predator-Prey Interactions -- 1 Predaceous Herbivores and Herbivorous Predators: The Biology of Omnivores and the Ecology of Omnivore-Prey Interactions -- 2 Mutualisms as Consumer-Resource Interactions -- 3 Learning as an Adaptive Response to Predation -- 4 Patterns of Inheritance of Foraging Traits in Predators -- PART II: Sensory, Physiological, and Behavioral Perspectives -- 5 Acoustic Interactions between Insects and Bats: A Model for the Interplay of Neural and Ecological Specializations -- 6 The Visual Ecology of Predator-Prey Interactions -- 7 The Production and Appropriation of Chemical Signals among Plants, Herbivores, and Predators -- 8 Perception of Predation Risk: The Foundation of Nonlethal Predator-Prey Interactions -- 9 Constraints on Inducible Defenses: Phylogeny, Ontogeny, and Phenotypic Trade-Offs -- PART III: Population- and Community-Level Interactions -- 10 Direct and Indirect Effects of Vegetation Structure and Habitat Complexity on Predator-Prey and Predator-Predator Interactions -- 11 Predator-Prey Space Use as an Emergent Outcome of a Behavioral Response Race -- 12 Behavior of Predators and Prey and Links with Population-Level Processes -- 13 The Consequences of Predator and Prey Adaptations for Top-Down and Bottom-Up Effects -- PART IV: Applied Consequences of Predator-Prey Interactions -- 14 Top-Down Forces in Managed versus Unmanaged Habitats -- 15 Conservation Biological Control: Biodiversity Influences the Effectiveness of Predators -- 16 Species Abundance Distribution and Predator-Prey Interactions: Theoretical and Applied Consequences -- 17 Plight of Predators: The Importance of Carnivores for Understanding Patterns of Biodiversity and Extinction Risk -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U.

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