How population dynamics shape the functional response in a one-predator-two-prey system

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1571-1581

  Van Leeuwen, E ^a   Jansen, V A A ^a   Bright, P W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alternative food; Apostatic selection; Dietary history; Functional response; Holling; Mechanistic; Population dynamics; Predator prey; Switching; Type II; Type III

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EXTINCTION; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34547630664     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1335     Document Type: Article

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