Anthony / Hickerson Lab
We are interested in the roles that behavioral mechanisms play within food webs. For example, do behaviors such as aggression and territoriality have strong effects that might rival direct predation? We are specifcially interested in how terrestrial salamanders and large predatory invertebrates interact within detrital based forest floor food webs.
Selected publications - food webs
Hickerson, C.M., C.D. Anthony, and B.M. Walton. 2017. Eastern Red-backed Salamanders regulate top-down effects in a temperate forest-floor community. Herpetologica 73:180-189.
Hickerson, C.M., C.D. Anthony, and B.M. Walton. 2012. Interactions among forest-floor guild members in structurally simple microhabitats. American Midland Naturalist 168:30-42.
Anthony, C.D., C.M. Hickerson, and M.D. Venesky. 2007. Responses of juvenile terrestrial salamanders to introduced (Lithobius forficatus) and native centipedes (Scolopocryptops sexspinosus). Journal of Zoology 271:54-62.
Hickerson, C.M., C.D. Anthony, and B.M. Walton. 2005. Edge effects and intraguild predation in native and introduced centipedes: evidence from the field and from laboratory microcosms. Oecologia 146:100-119.
Hickerson, C.M., C.D. Anthony, and J.A. Wicknick. 2004. Behavioral interactions between salamanders and centipedes: competition in divergent taxa. Behavioral Ecology 15:679-686.
Gall, S.B., C.D. Anthony, and J.A. Wicknick. 2003. Behavioral interactions between salamanders and beetles indicate a guild relationship. American Midland Naturalist 149:363-374.
Anthony, C.D. 2003. Kinship influences cannibalism in the wolf spider, Pardosa milvina. Journal of Insect Behavior 16:23-36.
