Beyond Body Mass: How Prey Traits Improve Predictions of Functional Response Parameters

Beyond body mass: how prey traits improve predictions of functional response parameters

Ryan M. Kalinoski1,2and John P DeLong3,4

1College of Arts & Sciences, University of St. Francis, Joliet, IL 60453

2Current address: Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL 61920

3School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588

4Corresponding authors: .

Electronic Supplementary Materials

Figure S1. Functional response data and fits for each of 50 predator prey interaction found in the literature search. Each plot shows feeding rate against prey density. Data sets are presented from 1 to 50 from top left to bottom right and conform to the data set numbering of Table S2.

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Table S1. Sources for functional response data, predator and prey species names, and additional sources used to identify body mass of predator and prey species. An X indicates that mass was found in the same source as the functional response.

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Table S2. Functional response parameters, predator and prey species and body mass, prey type, temperature, and R2 values for the functional responses fit to the fifty cyclopoid copepod foraging data sets.

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