Self-organization, scale and stability i
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William S.C. Gurney; A.Roy Veitch
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Article
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2000
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Springer
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English
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Simple predator-prey models often predict extreme instability in interactions where the prey are depressed well below their carrying capacity. Although the behaviour of some laboratory systems conforms to this pattern, field and mesocosm studies generally show prolonged co-existence of prey and pred