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The role of size-specific predation in the evolution and diversification of prey life histories.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 May 2002
Day Troy, Abrams Peter A, Chase Jonathan M
Abstract excerpt
Some of the best empirical examples of life-history evolution involve responses to predation. Nevertheless, most life-history theory dealing with responses to predation has not been formulated within an explicit dynamic food-web context. In particular, most previous theory does not explicitly consider the coupled population dynamics of the focal species and its predators and resources. Here we present a model of...
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