A More Functional Response to Predator-Prey Stability
- 1 March 1977
- journal article
- letter
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 111 (978) , 381-383
- https://doi.org/10.1086/283170
Abstract
When the assumption that (I/P) dP/dt is independent of P is abandoned, stability no longer requires a stabilizing functional response. When the system is stable despite a destabilizing functional response, such a simple movement regime as passive diffusion can destabilize a homogeneous equilibrium if predator dispersal ability is sufficiently high. The result may be a stable spatial pattern. In general, even in a homogeneous environment one must consider temporal patterns, spatial patterns and spatiotemporal patterns in examining coexistence and not restrict attention to uniform and constant equilibria.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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