Unusual predator-prey dynamics under reciprocal phenotypic plasticity.

Abstract excerpt

Recent theories and experiments have shown that plasticity, such as an inducible defense or an inducible offense in predator-prey interactions, strongly influences the stability of the population dynamics. However, such plastic adaptation has not been expected to cause unusual dynamics such as antiphase cycles, which occur in experimental predator-prey systems with evolutionary adaptation in the defensive trait...

Topics

• Adaptation, Physiological
• Animals
• Biological Evolution
• Ecosystem
• Models, Biological
• Phenotype
• Population Dynamics
• Predatory Behavior
• Species Specificity