TY - JOUR AB - Understanding the relation between behavioural processes and their population- or community-level consequences is fundamental to developing a mechanistic understanding of ecosystems. Rarely are such links made, particularly outside the laboratory, and rarely is behaviour manipulated directly through genetic or hormonal manipulation. The area that provides the greatest promise is the relation between foraging behaviour and its subsequent growth and survival consequences. In whole-lake experiments, we used domestic and wild strains of rainbow trout, Orcorhynshus mykiss, differing in intrinsic activity and antipredator behaviours in the laboratory, to determine whether differences in activity and habitat use between strains exist in the field and could provide a behavioural mechanism for previous studies shwing a trade-off between growth and survival. Domestic trout made up the majority of gill net catches (greater overall activity), particularly in deep and pelagic habitats that had abundant food but offered little or no physical habitat structure to escape from predation. Thus greater activity rates (inferred) and use of risky habitats (directly observed) by domestic trout provides a behaviourally mediated mechanism fro previous large-scale studeis showing trade-offs between growth and mortality. AU - Biro, P AU - Abrahams, MV AU - Post, JR DA - 2007/01/01 EP - 896 JO - Animal Behaviour PB - Academic Press Ltd Elsevier Science Ltd PY - 2007/01/01 SP - 891 TI - Direct manipulation of behaviour reveals a mechanism for variation in growth and mortality among prey populations VL - 73 Y1 - 2007/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 ER -