Rapid predator-prey balance shift follows critical-population-density transmission between cod

Rapid predator-prey balance shift follows critical-population-density transmission between cod

By Shourav Pednekar, Ankita Jain, Olav Rune Godø & Nicholas C. Makris

Source: nature

10/29/2024

Sensing limitations have impeded knowledge about how individual predator-prey interactions build to organized multi-species group behaviour across an ecosystem. Population densities of overlapping interacting oceanic fish predator and prey species, however, can be instantaneously distinguished and quantified from roughly the elemental individual to spatial scales spanning thousands of square kilometres by wide-area multispectral underwater-acoustic sensing, as shown here.

This enables fundamental mechanisms behind large-scale ordered predator-prey interactions to be investigated. Critical population densities that transition random individual behaviour to ordered group behaviour are found to rapidly propagate to form vast adversarial prey and predator shoals of capelin and surrounding cod in the Barents Sea Arctic ecosystem for these keystone species.

Atlantic cod

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