Does sex-selective predation stabilize or destabilize predator-prey dynamics?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Boulak, David S ^a,b,c   Berec, Luděk ^c   Křivan, Vlastimil ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUNTING; HARVESTING; MATING SYSTEM; MONOGAMY; NONHUMAN; POLYANDRY; POLYGYNY; POPULATION SIZE; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SELECTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 49949095598     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002687     Document Type: Review

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