Comparing the qualitatively different effects rapidly evolving and rapidly induced defences have on predator-prey interactions.

Abstract excerpt

Interspecific interactions depend not only on the population densities of the interacting species, but on their phenotypes as well. Phenotypic variation can be plastic or heritable and both mechanisms can drive phenotypic change at rates comparable to or faster than those of ecological dynamics (e.g. changes in population abundances or spatial distributions). In this study, we compare the effects rapidly induced...

Topics

• Animals
• Biological Evolution
• Ecosystem
• Food Chain
• Models, Biological
• Phenotype
• Population Density
• Population Dynamics