InhaltsangabeAn introduction to predation in organisms.- Predation due to changes in environment: Ostracod provinciality at the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum in North and West Africa and the Middle East.- Predation on Miocene ostracods of Wadi Um Ashtan, Mersa Matruh, Western Desert, Egypt.- Ostracod carnivory through time.- Trophic relationships in crustacean decapods of a river with a floodplain.- The role of predation in shaping biological communities, with particular emphasis to insects.- Biological control of mosquito populations: An applied aspect of pest control by means of natural enemies.- A case for cannibalism: Confamilial and conspecific predation by naticid gastropods, Cretaceous through Pleistocene of the United States Coastal Plain.- On models for the dynamics of predator-prey interaction.- Evolutionary consequences of predation: avoidance, escape, reproduction, and diversification.- Predation impacts and management strategies for wildlife protection.- Invasive Predators: a synthesis of the past, present, and future.- Predator-prey interaction of Brazilian Cretaceous toothed pterosaurs: a case example.