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Rosenzweig, M.L.; Macarthur, R.H.
Graphical representation and stability conditions of predator-prey interactions
1963 The American Naturalist (895): 209-223
Investigators have employed two major pathways when inquiring into the nature of the predator-prey interaction. One of these has been to disassemble the interaction into as many component parts as possible and then characterize these for various specific predator-prey relationships. This approach is certainly necessary to a complete understanding of any given predator-prey interaction, but it does not stress, nor has it been fruitful at the task of making general statements about two central ecological problems. Does the interaction contribute to the observed stability of natural communities? In what direction, towards or away from a stable interaction, does the force of Natural Selection drive the predator and its prey? We shall herein embark on the second pathway, that of generalization, and attempt to begin to answer these two questions.
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