On the stabilizing effect of predators and competitors on ecological communities.
Ecological communities can lose their permanence if a predator or a competitor is removed: the remaining species no longer coexist. This well-known phenomenon is analysed for some low dimensional examples of Lotka-Volterra type, with special attention paid to the occurrence of hetero-clinic cycles.
Hofbauer
J
J
Institut für Mathematik der Universität Wien, Austria.
Sigmund
K
K
D000818:Animals; D001070:Appetitive Behavior; D004463:Ecology; D008433:Mathematics; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011235:Predatory Behavior