predator-prey interaction
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interaction
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌɪn.təˈræk.ʃən/us/ˌɪn.t̬ɚˈræk.ʃən/
an occasion when two or more people or things communicate with or react to ...
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This dampening of the aggregative response of predators to heterogeneous prey patches leads to destabilization of thepredator-preyinteraction.
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This spatial variation may have important implications for the stability of predator-prey interactions.
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Therefore, small variation in either minnows or sunfish size were insignificant and played no role in the analysis of the predator-prey interactions.
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Thus, the benefits of the predator-prey interactions are maintained during periods of pesticide application.
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Initial predator-prey interactions were exclusively mediated by the control eye.
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This is not to say, however, that some of the cur rent investigators are unaware of some of the subtleties in the investigation of predator-prey interactions.
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The difficulty here will be to advance plausible empirical hypotheses about predator-prey interactions and the environments in which these interactions take place which explain why counter-predatory persuasion would be unlikely.
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First, the direct impact of parasites on the abundance of key host species can decrease the importance of these hosts in competition or predator-prey interactions with other species.
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Interspecific interactions, like intraspecific interactions, can range from cooperative to competitive but also to quite antagonistic (as are seen, for example, with predator-prey interactions).
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Microbial population biology also encompasses the evolution and ecology of community interactions (community ecology) between microorganisms, including microbial coevolution and predator-prey interactions.
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Predator-prey interactions are an introductory concept into food-web studies as well as behavioural ecology.
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They also exhibit collective behavior such as schooling, chemotaxis, and predator-prey interactions that are mimetic of biological microorganisms.
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He argued that the occurrence of optimum growth conditions allows for both the growth of predator and prey, which results in increased interactions between the two; it recouples predator-prey interactions.
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Gause's early experiments to prove the predicted oscillations of this theory failed because the predator-prey interactions were not influenced by immigration.
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Because lice are wingless, transfer between hosts usually involves direct contact during mating, brooding and nursing of young, sharing of communal nest sites or even during predator-prey interactions.
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