Emergent effects of multiple predators on prey survival: The importance of depletion and the functional response

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1449-1456

  Mccoy, Michael W ^a,b   Stier, Adrian C ^b   Osenberg, Craig W ^b  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Additivity; Density dependence; Handling time; MPE; Predation; Roger's random predator model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931749069     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12005     Document Type: Article

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