Population RegulationRobert H. Tamarin |
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... response to changes of prey density , and applied the term functional response to the change in the number of prey consumed by individual predators , and the term numerical response to the change in the density of predators . These are ...
... response to changes of prey density , and applied the term functional response to the change in the number of prey consumed by individual predators , and the term numerical response to the change in the density of predators . These are ...
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... Functional and numerical responses combined to show the relation between per cent predation and cocoon density ... response has a roughly sigmoid shape and hence the proportion of prey destroyed by an individual predator will increase with ...
... Functional and numerical responses combined to show the relation between per cent predation and cocoon density ... response has a roughly sigmoid shape and hence the proportion of prey destroyed by an individual predator will increase with ...
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... functional response . The change in the density of predators , as a result of in- crease in prey density , is termed the numerical response . The three important species of small mammal predators ( Blarina , Sorex , and Peromyscus ) ...
... functional response . The change in the density of predators , as a result of in- crease in prey density , is termed the numerical response . The three important species of small mammal predators ( Blarina , Sorex , and Peromyscus ) ...
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Andrewartha H G 73 | 23 |
THE BIOTIC SCHOOL OF POPULATION REGULATION HISTORICAL | 27 |
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AA plants abundance adrenal weight adult alternate foods Andrewartha and Birch animal populations balance behavior Biol biological biotic birds Bupalus causes changes Chitty chromosomal inversions climate cocoon density cocoons components crease curve cycles decline decrease density-dependent factor Didinium dispersal E. B. Ford Ecol ecologists ecology effect entomologists environment environmental equation evolution evolutionary example experiments extinction females fluctuations functional response gene genetic genotypes habitat herbivore host hypothesis important insect interaction intraspecific competition isocline Krebs laboratory larvae lation limited mammals mechanisms method mice Microtus Milne mortality moth myxomatosis natural control natural populations natural selection Nicholson numbers of animals numerical response observed organisms oscillations outbreaks paper parasites Peromyscus pests popu population density population growth population regulation predators prey density problem Proc rate of increase relation reproductive rodents sawfly Schwerdtfeger Slobodkin small mammals species survival temperature theory tion trophic level variables voles weather Zool