Overall population stability despite local extinction: The stabilizing influence of prey dispersal from predator-invaded patches (Q1113842)
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Overall population stability despite local extinction: The stabilizing influence of prey dispersal from predator-invaded patches (English)
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1988
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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.
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predator-prey patch model
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Extinction of local populations
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synchrony
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prey colonies
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predator-invaded patch
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dispersal
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