Omnivory creates chaos in simple food web models

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3411-3414

  Tanabe, Kumi ^a   Namba, Toshiyuki ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chaos; Food web; Intraguild predation; Linear functional response; Lotka volterra model; Omnivory; Period doubling cascade; Stability

Indexed keywords

FOOD WEB; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; OMNIVORY;

EID: 30644457203     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/05-0720     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Arim, M., and P. A. Marquet. 2004. Intraguild predation: a widespread interaction related to species biology. Ecology Letters 7:557-564.
2. Coll, M., and M. Guershon. 2002. Omnivory in terrestrial arthropods: mixing plant and prey diets. Annual Review of Entomology 47:267-297.
3. Denno, R. F., and W. F. Fagan. 2003. Might nitrogen limitation promote omnivory among carnivorous arthropods? Ecology 84:2522-2531.
4. Diehl, S. 1993. Relative consumer sizes and the strengths of direct and indirect interactions in omnivorous feeding relationships. Oikos 68:151-157.
5. Gilpin, M. E. 1979. Spiral chaos in a predator-prey model. American Naturalist 113:306-308.
6. Guckenheimer, J., and P. Holmes. 1983. Nonlinear oscillations, dynamical systems, and bifurcations of vector fields. Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, USA.
7. Harrison, G. W. 1979. Global stability of food chains. American Naturalist 114:455-457.
8. Hastings, A., and T. Powell. 1991. Chaos in a three-species food chain. Ecology 72:896-903.
9. Holling, C. S. 1959a. The components of predation as revealed by a study of small mammal predation of the European pine sawfly. Canadian Entomologist 91:293-320.
10. Holling, C. S. 1959b. Some characteristics of simple types of predation and parasitism. Canadian Entomologist 91: 385-398.
11. Holt, R. D. 1997. Community modules. Pages 333-350 in A. C. Gange and V. K. Brown, editors. Multitrophic interactions in terrestrial systems. Blackwell Science, Oxford, UK.
12. Holt, R. D., and G. A. Polis. 1997. A theoretical framework for intraguild predation. American Naturalist 149:745-764.
13. Lawler, S. P., and P. J. Morin. 1993. Food web architecture and population dynamics in laboratory microcosms of protists. American Naturalist 141:675-686.
14. McCann, K., and A. Hastings. 1997. Re-evaluating the omnivory-stability relationship in food webs. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 264:1249-1254.
15. Morin, P. J., and S. P. Lawler. 1995. Food web architecture and population dynamics: theory and empirical evidence. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 26:505-529.
16. Mylius, S. D., K. Klumpers, A. M. de Roos, and L. Persson. 2001. Impact of intraguild predation and stage structure on simple communities along a productivity gradient. American Naturalist 158:259-276.
17. Pimm, S. L. 1982. Food webs. Chapman and Hall, London, UK.
18. Pimm, S. L., and J. H. Lawton. 1978. On feeding on more than one trophic level. Nature 275:542-544.
19. Polis, G. A. 1991. Complex trophic interactions in deserts: an empirical critique of food-web theory. American Naturalist 138:123-155.
20. Polis, G. A. 1994. Food webs, trophic cascades and community structure. Australian Journal of Ecology 19:121-136.
21. Polis, G. A., and R. D. Holt. 1992. Intraguild predation: the dynamics of complex trophic interactions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 7:151-154.
22. Polis, G. A., C. A. Myers, and R. D. Holt. 1989. The ecology and evolution of intraguild predation: potential competitors that eat each other. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 20:297-330.
23. Revilla, T. 2002. Effects of intraguild predation on resource competition. Journal of Theoretical Biology 214:49-62.
24. Takeuchi, Y., and N. Adachi. 1983. Existence and bifurcation of stable equilibrium in two-prey, one-predator communities. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 45:877-900.
25. Vance, R. R. 1978. Predation and resource partitioning in one predator-two prey model communities. American Naturalist 112:797-813.
26. Vandermeer, J., and S. Maruca. 1998. Indirect effects with a keystone predator: coexistence and chaos. Theoretical Population Biology 54:38-43.
27. Winemiller, K. O. 1990. Spatial and temporal variation in tropical fish trophic networks. Ecological Monographs 60: 331-367.
28. Yodzis, P., and S. Innes. 1992. Body size and consumer resource dynamics. American Naturalist 139:1151-1175.