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Interacting species: predation - additional resources
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General
An introduction to limit cycles at the MIT site: http://math.mit.edu/suppnotes/suppnotes03/lc.pdf
Predator-prey interaction at Oxford bibliographies.
Chapters II.7, II.8 and II.10 in The Princeton Guide to Ecology.
Classic papers
Limit Cycles in Predator-Prey Communities, by R.M. May: http://www.math.ku.dk/~moller/e04/bio/may72.pdf
The paradox of enrichment, original paper by M. Rosenzweig: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/171/3969/385.full.pdf
Rosenzweig-MacArthur model: The American Naturalist 97: 209-223 (1963)
Functional responses
Ginzburg & Arditi 2012. How species interact -- Altering the Standard View on Trophic Ecology. Oxford Univ Press. An alternative view of predator-prey models, based on functional responses to the ratio of predator and prey abundances . Has also an excellent review of classical models and functional responses.
Predation and structure of communities
Estes J.A. et al. 2011. Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth. Science 333: 301-306.
Holt, R.D. Predation and community organization. Cap. III.3, The Princeton Guide to Ecology
Terborgh J. & Estes J.A. 2010. Trophic Cascades: Predators, Prey, and the Changing Dynamics of Nature. Island Press.