Roles of alternative prey for mesopredators on trophic cascades in intraguild predation systems: A theoretical perspective

American Naturalist

Volumn 183, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 625-637

  Nishijima, Shota ^a   Takimoto, Gaku ^b   Miyashita, Tadashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apparent competition; Exploitative competition; Invasive alien species; Log response ratio; Management strategy; Resource subsidy

Indexed keywords

INVASIVE SPECIES; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PREY AVAILABILITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; TROPHIC CASCADE;

ANIMAL; APPETITE; FOOD CHAIN; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84898906920     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/675691     Document Type: Article

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