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Priyanga Amarasekare1

  • 1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606, USA. amarasek@eeb.ucla.edu

The Journal of Animal Ecology
|July 18, 2008
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Dispersal impacts predator-prey communities by influencing species coexistence and distribution. Unexpectedly, the inferior competitor

Area of Science:

  • Ecology
  • Community Ecology
  • Population Dynamics

Background:

  • Predator-prey interactions are fundamental to community structure.
  • Species coexistence is influenced by factors like competition, predation, and dispersal.
  • Trade-offs between competitive ability and predator susceptibility can affect community dynamics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effects of dispersal on keystone predator-prey communities.
  • To understand how species traits, such as competitive ability and predator susceptibility, interact with dispersal to shape community structure.
  • To explore the role of dispersal in mediating species coexistence and distribution patterns.

Main Methods:

  • Theoretical modeling of predator-prey dynamics incorporating dispersal.

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  • Analysis of species coexistence under varying resource productivity and dispersal rates.
  • Examination of the asymmetric effects of dispersal on different species within the community.

    • Main Results:

    • A strong trade-off between competitive ability and predator susceptibility facilitates consumer coexistence but increases extinction risk for superior competitors.
    • Dispersal plays a more critical role in predator-mediated coexistence when it is strong.
    • Species' dispersal effects are asymmetric: the inferior competitor's dispersal significantly impacts coexistence, while the superior competitor's has no effect.
    • The inferior competitor's dispersal can alter species distributions from segregation to aggregation and mediate the predator's dispersal effects.

    Conclusions:

    • Differences in balancing resource acquisition and predator avoidance lead to unexpected dispersal effects.
    • In the absence of dispersal, the top predator drives coexistence; with dispersal, the predator-resistant inferior competitor becomes the primary driver.
    • Dispersal can fundamentally alter community structure and species interactions in predator-prey systems.