Perpetual predator-prey population cycles
Wednesday, December 18, 2019 - 14:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
How can predators coexist with their prey over long periods without the predators completely depleting the resource that keeps them alive? Experiments performed over a period of 10 years by researchers from McGill University and the Universities of Oldenburg and Potsdam have now confirmed that regular oscillations in predator-prey populations can persist over very long periods