Functional responses: a question of alternative prey and predator density
- Tschanz, Britta Zoological Institute, Community Ecology, University of Bern, Switzerland
- Bersier, Louis-Félix Unit of Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Bacher, Sven Zoological Institute, Community Ecology, University of Bern, Switzerland
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2007
Published in:
- Ecology. - 2007, vol. 88, no. 5, p. 1300–1308
alternative prey
Cassida rubiginosa
Cirsium arvense
effective predator density
Polistes dominulus
predation
predator-dependent functional response
predator interference
preference
prey switching
ratio dependence, Tenebrio molitor
English
Throughout the study of ecology, there has been a growing realization that indirect effects among species cause complexity in food webs. Understanding and predicting the behavior of ecosystems consequently depends on our ability to identify indirect effects and their mechanisms. The present study experimentally investigates indirect interactions arising between two prey species that share a... Show more…
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences
- Department
- Biologie
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Biology
- License
- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 8085
- DOI 10.1890/06-1512
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/300296