BIOL 2335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Isocline, Fossil Fuel, Functional Response
Document Summary
Role of predator competition in changing predator isocline, and the forms it may take. Definition of numerical response and how it affects predator efficiency. Meaning of predator functional response, what affects it and how or why it changes prey capture rate ". Effect of predator functional response on prey isocline. How predator efficiency/ numerical response and predator functional response affect predator prey cycling. Biological control and predator prey theory: biological control - use of one biological agent to control another biological agent. Theory behind bio control, and desired types of predator prey dynamics. Invasive weed is taking over local environment. If weed species begins to show some sort of mutation or adaptation to defend itself, the predator must be able to respond to that adaptation with an adaptation of its own. Predator must have short life cycle and fast reproduction rate that will allow it quickly respond to the weeds: the predator could be an insect or a mammal.
