Emergent Allee effects in top predators feeding on structured prey populations

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1515, 2003, Pages 611-618

  De Roos, André M ^a   Persson, Lennart ^b   Thieme, Horst R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allee effect; Bistability; Catastrophic collapse; Size selective predation; Structured food chain; Subcritical bifurcation

Indexed keywords

ALLEE EFFECT; POPULATION ECOLOGY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY SELECTION; SIZE SELECTION;

ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEEDING; FERTILITY; FOOD CHAIN; FORAGE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATURATION; POPULATION SIZE; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0037460860     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2286     Document Type: Article

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