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Predating predators: An experimental study [PDF]

open access: possible, 2001
Predating predators requires at least three specimen to which we refer as players 1, 2, and 3. Player 1 has simply to guess nature when trying to find food. Player 2 is hunting player 1 in the hope that 1 is well-fed but must also avoid being hunted by player 3.
Avrahami, Judith   +2 more
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Diversification and Predation

The Journal of Industrial Economics, 1988
ONE common assumption in the post-McGee [1958] predatory pricing literature has been that the predatory firm must be larger (have 'deeper pockets'), than the victim of the predation, usually an entrant. This assumption stems from a model of predation in which the contesting firms sell at levels below cost until one of the firms exits after exhausting ...
Hilke, John C, Nelson, Philip B
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A predator's perspective of nest predation: predation by red squirrels is learned, not incidental

Oikos, 2009
Nest predation has been used to explain aspects of avian ecology ranging from nest site selection to population declines. Many arguments rely on specific assumptions regarding how predators find nests, yet these predatory mechanisms remain largely untested.
James N. M. Smith   +2 more
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Predation in Space

Spatial Economic Analysis, 2012
Abstract In a spatial economic context, we analyse the incentive to prey of an incumbent facing the potential entrance by a rival. We show that the existence of space modifies the incentive to prey of the incumbent and the resulting equilibrium.
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Chapter 11 Predators and predation

2001
Publisher Summary Most field predation studies on hard clams, Mercenaria mercenaria , focuses on elucidating information for aquaculture activities and involves manipulative experiments with some form of protection. The control conditions for these studies are used to examine some ecological relationships, but the plots are seeded at relatively high
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Analysis of a predator–prey system with predator switching

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2004
In this paper, we consider an interaction of prey and predator species where prey species have the ability of group defence. Thresholds, equilibria and stabilities are determined for the system of ordinary differential equations. Taking carrying capacity as a bifurcation parameter, it is shown that a Hopf bifurcation can occur implying that if the ...
Graeme C. Wake   +2 more
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Impact of predator dormancy on prey-predator dynamics

Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 2018
The impact of predator dormancy on the population dynamics of phytoplankton-zooplankton in freshwater ecosystems is investigated using a simple model including dormancy, a strategy to avoid extinction. In addition to recently reported chaos-mediated mixed-mode oscillations, as the carrying capacity grows, we find surprisingly wide phases of nonchaos ...
Joana G. Freire   +2 more
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THE EFFECT OF PREY AND PREDATOR DENSITIES ON WOLF PREDATION

Ecology, 2002
Predator kills rate (i.e., kills per predator per time) is routinely presupposed to depend exclusively on prey density. However, per capita rates of killing may typically depend on the density of both prey and predator. Unfortunately, our perception of many ecological phenomena may be limited by the inappropriate assumption that kill rates do not ...
John A. Vucetich   +2 more
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PREDATORS COME AND PREDATORS GO: THE REVERSIBILITY OF PREDATOR-INDUCED TRAITS

Ecology, 2003
While numerous studies have been conducted on the ecology and evolution of phenotypic plasticity, to really understand plasticity we need to expose organisms to different environments over several ontogenetic stages. In this way, we can examine whether organisms change their phenotypic strategy over ontogeny, whether there are developmental windows ...
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Predators

Journal of Nursing Measurement, 2022
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