Can environmental variation generate positive indirect effects in a model of shared predation?

American Naturalist

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 43-54

  Brassil, Chad E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apparent competition; Exogenous variation; Extrinsic forcing; Noise amplification; Nonlinear dynamics; Subharmonic resonance

Indexed keywords

APPARENT COMPETITION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEATH; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; DEATH; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 29844439435     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/498432     Document Type: Article

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