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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.
Paradox of enrichment
In some predator-prey models, adding resources makes population cycles larger and less stable instead of simply raising every population.Source: Rosenzweig, 1971
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Paradox of enrichment: destabilization of exploitation ecosystems in ecological time (opens the original in a new tab)
Rosenzweig ML (1971). Science 171:385-387.
In some models, adding resources makes predator-prey cycles larger and less stable.
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