Predator-prey dynamics driven by feedback between functionally diverse trophic levels

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Tirok, Katrin ^a,b,c   Bauer, Barbara ^a   Wirtz, Kai ^b   Gaedke, Ursula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GROWTH RATE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY SELECTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPHIC LEVEL; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 80855156792     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027357     Document Type: Article

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