Suppression of Ecological Competition by Apex Predator
arXiv:cond-mat/0308163 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.70.021913
Abstract
In the framework of Lotka-Volterra dynamics with evolutionary parameter variation, it is shown that a system of two competing species which is evolutionarily unstable, if left to themselves, is stabilized by a commmon predator preying on both of them. Game-theoretic implications of the results are also discussed.
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