BIOL 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Aposematism, Coevolution, Herbivore
1. Predation – Krebs 11-13
Predator-prey hypothesis
There`s cycles when the prey has any chance at survival
The overpopulation hypothesis – when there`s too many individuals,
there is a physiological stress due to starvation, disease or parasitism.
- This is why logistic growth slows down and plateaus
LOTKA-VOLTERA
Nt+1 = R0Nt – CNtPt - simple growth when nothing is limiting it
C – efficiency of predator – how often does it catch its prey
For the predator
Pt+1 = QNtPt
Q – when a predator is killing a prey, is it efficient in using as much energy as
possible from the prey for their own energy uses? How much does it eat +
how good is their metabolism.
Isocline – line that describes the limits of growth of a species (where pop
stops growing)
How is the population of prey and predator changing together?
In each side of the isocline,either the population grows or it decreases.
UNSTABLE EQUILIBRIUM because every year you get a different flunctuating
number of prey and predator.
Interspecific competition – rozenzweig-macarthur model
Other regulatory factor that influences populations. As prey becomes really
numerous, it starts getting more controlled by intraspecific competition
than by predators.
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