Speaker
Lawrence Seminario-Romero
(Haverford College)
Description
The functional response describes how a predator’s consumption rate varies with prey density. There are three types of Holling functional responses: Type I (linear), Type II (hyperbolic), and Type III (sigmoidal). Although many predator-prey models adopt a Type II response for analytical convenience, this choice is more appropriate for specialist predators. In contrast, generalist predators are better described by a Type III functional response. In this talk, we analyze a predator-prey model incorporating a Type III functional response, and establish a sufficient condition for the stable coexistence of both species.
Author
Lawrence Seminario-Romero
(Haverford College)
Co-authors
Richard Rebarber
(University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Brigitte Tenhumberg
(University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
