Predator-Prey Interactions

Theoretical Ecology: BIOL765
Department of Biological Sciences
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208
October 27, 1998

Readings:

May, R. M. 1981. Models for two interacting species. pp. 78-104 in R. M. May (ed), Theoretical Ecology. Sinauer
Read section 5.2 (pp 78-86 most closely.
Maple worksheet - Volterra and May predator-prey models

van de Koppel, J, J. Huisman, R. van der Wal & H. Olff. 1996. Patterns of herbivory along a productivity gradient: an empirical and theoretical investigation. Ecology 77: 736-745.
Maple worksheet

Thingstad, T. F. , H. Havskum, K. Garde & B. Riemann. 1996. On the strategy of eating your competitor: a mathematical analysis of algal mixotrophy. Ecology 77: 2108-2118.