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.