Linked exploitation and interference competition drives the variable behavior of a classic predator-prey system

Oikos

Volumn 122, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1393-1400

  Delong, John P ^a,b   Vasseur, David A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; CRUSTACEAN; FLATWORM; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; INSECT; INTERFERENCE COMPETITION; MAMMAL; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PROTIST;

AVES; CRUSTACEA; DIDINIUM; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; PARAMECIUM; PLATYHELMINTHES; PROTISTA;

EID: 84890857873     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00418.x     Document Type: Article

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