High reproductive rates result in high predation risks: A mechanism promoting the coexistence of competing prey in spatially structured populations

American Naturalist

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 299-309

  Kondoh, Michio ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apparent competition; Cellular automata; Exploitative competition; Predator mediated coexistence; Spatial effect; Trade off between predation risk and reproduction

Indexed keywords

APPARENT COMPETITION; CELLULAR AUTOMATON; COEXISTENCE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REPRODUCTION; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; REPRODUCTION; RISK;

ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; RISK;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037327187     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/345939     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Atkinson, W. D., and B. Shorrocks. 1981. Competition on a divided and ephemeral resource: a simulation model. Journal of Animal Ecology 50:461-471.
2. Caswell, H. 1978. Predator mediated coexistence: a non-equilibrium model. American Naturalist 112:127-154.
3. Comins, H. N., and M. P. Hassell. 1996. Persistence of multispecies host-parasitoid interactions in spatially distributed models with local dispersal. Journal of Theoretical Biology 183:19-28.
4. Connell, J. H. 1978. Diversity in tropical rain forests and coral reefs. Science (Washington, D.C.) 199:1302-1310.
5. Connell, S. D. 2000. Is there safety-in-numbers for prey? Oikos 88:527-532.
6. Cramer, N. F., and R. M. May. 1972. Interspecific competition, predation and species diversity: a comment. Journal of Theoretical Biology 34:289-293.
7. Crowley, P. H. 1979. Predator-mediated coexistence: an equilibrium interpretation. Journal of Theoretical Biology 80:129-144.
8. Fujii, K. 1977. Complexity-stability relationship of two-prey-one-predator species system model: local and global stability. Journal of Theoretical Biology 69:613-623.
9. Gleeson, S. K., and D. S. Wilson. 1986. Equilibrium diet: optimal foraging and prey coexistence. Oikos 46:139-144.
10. Hanski, I. A., and M. E. Gilpin. 1997. Metapopulation biology: ecology, genetics, and evolution. Academic Press, San Diego, Calif.
11. Hassell, M. P., and R. M. May. 1974. Aggregation of predators and insect parasites and its effect on stability. Journal of Animal Ecology 43:567-594.
12. Hastings, A. 1990. Spatial heterogeneity and ecological models. Ecology 71:426-428.
13. Holt, R. D. 1977. Predation, apparent competition, and the structure of prey communities. Theoretical Population Biology 12:197-229.
14. Huston, M. A. 1979. A general hypothesis of species diversity. American Naturalist 113:81-101.
15. Huston, M. A., and D. L. DeAngelis. 1994. Competition and coexistence: the effects of resource transport and supply rates. American Naturalist 144:954-977.
16. Ives, A. R., and R. M. May. 1985. Competition within and between species in a patchy environment: relations between microscopic and macroscopic models. Journal of Theoretical Biology 115:65-92.
17. Janzen, D. H. 1970. Herbivores and the number of tree species in tropical forests. American Naturalist 104:501-528.
18. Leibold, M. A. 1996. A graphical model of keystone predators in food webs: trophic regulation of abundance, incidence, and diversity patterns in communities. American Naturalist 147:784-812.
19. Levin, S., and D. Pimentel. 1981. Selection of intermediate rates of increase in parasite-host systems. American Naturalist 117:308-315.
20. Levin, S. A., and R. T. Paine. 1974. Disturbance, patch formation, and community structure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 71:2744-2747.
21. Lewis, M. A. 1997. Variability, patchiness, and jump dispersal in the spread of an invading population. Pages 46-69 in D. Tilman and P. Kareiva, eds. Spatial ecology. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.
22. Lloyd, M. 1967. Mean crowding. Journal of Animal Ecology 36:1-30.
23. Lubchenco, J. 1978. Plant species diversity in a marine intertidal community: importance of herbivore food preference and algal competitive abilities. American Naturalist 112:23-39.
24. May, R. M. 1973. Stability and complexity in model ecosystems. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.
25. Nee, S., and R. M. May. 1992. Dynamics of metapopulations: habitat destruction and competitive coexistence. Journal of Animal Ecology 61:37-40.
26. Pacala, S. W., and M. J. Crawley. 1992. Herbivores and plant diversity. American Naturalist 140:243-260.
27. Pacala, S. W., and S. A. Levin. 1997. Biologically generated spatial pattern and the coexistence of competing species. Pages 204-232 in D. Tilman and P. Kareiva, eds. Spatial ecology. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.
28. Paine, R. T. 1966. Food web complexity and species diversity. American Naturalist 100:65-75.
29. Richards, S. A., W. G. Wilson, and J. E. S. Socolar. 1999. Selection for intermediate mortality and reproduction rates in a spatially structured population. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, Biological Sciences 266:2383-2388.
30. Sato, K., H. Matsuda, and A. Sakai. 1994. Pathogen invasion and host extinction in lattice structured populations. Journal of Mathematical Biology 32:251-268.
31. Shorrocks, B., W. Atkinson, and P. Charlesworth. 1979. Competition on a divided and ephemeral resource. Journal of Animal Ecology 48:899-908.
32. Tansky, M. 1978. Switching effect in prey-predator system. Journal of Theoretical Biology 70:263-271.
33. Teramoto, E., K. Kawasaki, and N. Shigesada. 1979. Switching effect of predation on competitive prey species. Journal of Theoretical Biology 79:305-315.
34. Tilman, D. 1982. Resource competition and community structure. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.
35. _. 1994. Competition and biodiversity in spatially structured habitats. Ecology 75:2-16.
36. Tilman, D., and P. Kareiva. 1997. Spatial ecology: the role of space in population dynamics and interspecific interactions. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.
37. Tilman, D., and S. Pacala. 1993. The maintenance of species richness in plant communities. Pages 13-25 in R. E. Ricklefs and D. Schluter, eds. Species diversity in ecological communities. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
38. Tilman, D., R. M. May, C. L. Lehman, and M. A. Nowak. 1994. Habitat destruction and the extinction debt. Nature 371:65-66.
39. Vulinec, K. 1990. Collective security: aggregation by insects as a defense. Pages 251-288 in D. L. Evans and J. O. Schmidt, eds. Insect defenses: adaptive mechanisms and strategies of prey and predators. State University of New York Press, Albany.