Overall population stability despite local extinction: The stabilizing influence of prey dispersal from predator-invaded patches (Q1113842): Difference between revisions

Extinction of local populations in the field is not a rare phenomenon, but is not easily assessed. The aim of the paper is to call attention to a less direct factor which diminishes the effects of synchrony: the founding of new prey colonies by prey which leave a predator-invaded patch during the interaction period. The authors analyze some simplified models and show that this dispersal process has a strong stabilizing influence.