Top-down control in a patchy environment: Revisiting the stabilizing role of food-dependent predator dispersal

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 9-19

  Morozov, Andrew ^a,b   Sen, Moitri ^c   Banerjee, Malay ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Eutrophic ecosystems; Food dependent migration; Spatial predator prey model; Top down control

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; CARRYING CAPACITY; CHLOROPHYLL; DISPERSAL; FOOD; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; HETEROGENEITY; LITERATURE REVIEW; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION OUTBREAK; PREDATOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; STABILIZATION; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; WATER COLUMN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FOOD; HUMAN; PREDATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; FOOD; HUMANS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84155180786     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2011.10.003     Document Type: Article

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