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Population dynamics
How population sizes change through births, deaths and interactions such as predation. Mathematical predator-prey models date to the 1920s.
Functional response
How a predator's feeding rate changes with prey density. It often levels off when prey are plentiful.Source: Holling, 1959
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Some characteristics of simple types of predation and parasitism (opens the original in a new tab)
Holling CS (1959). The Canadian Entomologist 91:385-398.
Introduced the functional response: how a predator's feeding rate saturates as prey become abundant.
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