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SUBMITTER: Schreiber SJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1560034 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schreiber Sebastian J SJ Vejdani Melanie M
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20060101 1583
Predators often have type II functional responses and live in environments where their life history traits as well as those of their prey vary from patch to patch. To understand how spatial heterogeneity and predator handling times influence the coevolution of patch preferences and ecological stability, we perform an ecological and evolutionary analysis of a Nicholson-Bailey type model. We prove that coevolutionarily stable prey and searching predators prefer patches that in isolation support hi ...[more]