Alternative food, switching predators, and the persistence of predator-prey systems

American Naturalist

Volumn 157, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 512-524

  Van Baalen, Minus ^a,c   Křivan, Vlastimil ^b   Van Rijn, Paul C J ^a   Sabelis, Maurice W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

Author keywords

Alternative food; Ideal free distribution; Optimal foraging; Persistence; Predator prey dynamics; Switching

Indexed keywords

DIET; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

EID: 0035007927     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/319933     Document Type: Article

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