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Reciprocal phenotypic plasticity can lead to stable predator-prey interaction.
The Journal of animal ecology - 1 Nov 2009
Mougi Akihiko, Kishida Osamu
Abstract excerpt
1. Inducible defences of prey and inducible offences of predators are prevalent strategies in trophic interactions with temporal variation. Due to the inducible properties of the functional traits themselves, which drive the dynamic predator-prey relationship on an ecological time-scale, predator and prey may reciprocally interact through their inducible traits (i.e. reciprocal phenotypic plasticity). 2. Although...
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