Homage to the red queen. II. Coevolutionary response to enrichment of exploitation ecosystems |
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Authors: | Michael L. Rosenzweig William M. Schaffer |
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Affiliation: | Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 USA |
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Abstract: | The model of predator-victim coevolution developed in the preceding paper (Schaffer and Rosenzweig, 1978) is used to analyze the coevolutionary response to ecosystem enrichment. It is shown that coevolution tends to oppose the destabilization that results from the enrichment itself. In the circumstance that the victims' r and K are proportional, gradual enrichment followed by coevolutionary adjustment actually enhances ecosystem stability. |
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