“Survival in a Landscape of Fear: Navigating Predation Risk in Time and Space”
In a classic understatement, Lima and Dill (1990) once wrote: “few failures are as unforgiving as the failure to avoid a predator: being killed greatly decreases future fitness”. Predation is costly and fear of being eaten is a driving force shaping prey behavior and ecology. I work in African and North American large mammal communities to understand the behavioral strategies prey use to evade predators and the cascading community-wide consequences of these anti-predator tactics.
Dr. Meredith Palmer ’11 is a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University.