1. Ecology: Lectures 14 & 15 Predation, Parts 1 & 2

2. Lotka-Volterra equation: Prey isocline (dV/dt = 0)

3. Lotka-Volterra equation: Predator isocline (dC/dt = 0)

4. Lotka-Volterra model: with both predator and prey isoclines

5. Lotka-Volterra prediction: Predator-prey flux through time

6. Rosenzweig-MacArthur: Stable cycle

7. Rosenzweig-MacArthur: Stable/dampened oscillations

8. Rosenzweig-MacArthur: Unstable/increasing oscillations

9. Rosenzweig-MacArthur: Refuge

10. Gause’s predation experiments: Didinium predation on Paramecium

11. Huffaker’s experiments: mite predation and complex environments

12. Pimentel et al. experiments  Used parasitoid wasps and host flies as predator and prey  Created metapopulations

13. Functional responses of predator to prey concentrations  Type 1 response:

14. Functional responses of predator to prey concentrations  Type 2 response:

15. Functional responses of predator to prey concentrations  Type 3 response:

16. Tinbergen’s search image hypothesis for Type 3 responses http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~jmahaffy

17. Prey switching

18. Aggregative response

19. Optimal foraging example

20. Lynx and hare cycling

21. Hare and winter vegetation (“browse”) cycling