Some Characteristics of Simple Types of Predation and Parasitism
- 1 July 1959
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Canadian Entomologist
- Vol. 91 (7) , 385-398
- https://doi.org/10.4039/ent91385-7
Abstract
In an earlier study (Holling, 1959) the basic and subsidiary components of predation were demonstrated in a predator-prey situation involving the predation of sawfly cocoons by small mammals. One of the basic components, termed the functional response, was a response of the consumption of prey by individual predators to changes of prey density, and it appeared to be at least theoretically important in population regulation: Because of this importance the functional response has been further examined in an attempt to explain its characteristics.Keywords
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