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A meta-analysis to infer generic predator functional response
Samir Simon Suweis
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Samir Simon Suweis. A meta-analysis to infer generic predator functional response. 2020, pp.100051.
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A meta-analysis to infer
generic predator functional response
Samir Simon Suweis based on reviews by gyorgy barabas and Ludek Berec
A recommendation of:
Matthieu Barbier, Laurie Wojcik, Michel Loreau. A macro- ecological approach to predators' functional response (2020), bioRxiv, 832220, ver. 4 peer-reviewed and recommended by Peer Community In Ecology. 10.1101/832220
Submitted: 08 November 2019, Recommended: 24 March 2020
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Samir Simon Suweis (2020) A meta-analysis to infer generic predator functional response.
Peer Community in Ecology, 100051. 10.24072/pci.ecology.100051
Species interactions are classically derived from the law of mass action: the probability that, for example, a predation event occurs is proportional to the product of the density of the prey and predator species. In order to describe how predator and prey species populations grow, is then necessary to introduce functional response, describing the intake rate of a consumer as a function of food (e.g. prey) density. Linear functional responses shapes are typically introduced in the ecological modeling of population dynamics for both predator-prey and mutualistic systems [1,2]. Recently some works have proposed alternatives to the classic approach for mutualistic systems [3,4], both because
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Published: 24 March 2020
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