Discrete consumers, small scale resource heterogeneity, and population stability
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Nisbet, RM; De Roos, AM; Wilson, WG; Snyder, RE
Published in: Ecology Letters
January 1, 1998
We present a consumer-resource model in which individual consumers subsist on a continuum of resource distributed over a very large number of small "bite-sized" patches, each patch being sufficiently small that all its resource is eaten whenever a consumer visits. This form of consumer-resource interaction forces a heterogeneous distribution of resource among the patches, and may dampen out the large amplitude, consumer-resource cycles that are predicted by traditional models of well-mixed, spatially homogeneous systems. The resource equilibrium does not increase with enrichment, a prediction that distinguishes this model from models that invoke direct or indirect consumer density dependence as a stabilizing mechanism.
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Ecology Letters
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1461-023X
Publication Date
January 1, 1998
Volume
1
Issue
1
Start / End Page
34 / 37
Related Subject Headings
- Ecology
- 4104 Environmental management
- 4102 Ecological applications
- 3103 Ecology
- 0603 Evolutionary Biology
- 0602 Ecology
- 0501 Ecological Applications
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Nisbet, R. M., De Roos, A. M., Wilson, W. G., & Snyder, R. E. (1998). Discrete consumers, small scale resource heterogeneity, and population stability. Ecology Letters, 1(1), 34–37. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1461-0248.1998.00011.x
Nisbet, R. M., A. M. De Roos, W. G. Wilson, and R. E. Snyder. “Discrete consumers, small scale resource heterogeneity, and population stability.” Ecology Letters 1, no. 1 (January 1, 1998): 34–37. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1461-0248.1998.00011.x.
Nisbet RM, De Roos AM, Wilson WG, Snyder RE. Discrete consumers, small scale resource heterogeneity, and population stability. Ecology Letters. 1998 Jan 1;1(1):34–7.
Nisbet, R. M., et al. “Discrete consumers, small scale resource heterogeneity, and population stability.” Ecology Letters, vol. 1, no. 1, Jan. 1998, pp. 34–37. Scopus, doi:10.1046/j.1461-0248.1998.00011.x.
Nisbet RM, De Roos AM, Wilson WG, Snyder RE. Discrete consumers, small scale resource heterogeneity, and population stability. Ecology Letters. 1998 Jan 1;1(1):34–37.
Published In
Ecology Letters
DOI
ISSN
1461-023X
Publication Date
January 1, 1998
Volume
1
Issue
1
Start / End Page
34 / 37
Related Subject Headings
- Ecology
- 4104 Environmental management
- 4102 Ecological applications
- 3103 Ecology
- 0603 Evolutionary Biology
- 0602 Ecology
- 0501 Ecological Applications