caa a22 4500 477140580 CHVBK 20180405111731.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19971101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s002850050094 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s002850050094 Schreiber Sebastian J. 151 Hilgard Hall, College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA e-mail: schreib/nature.berkeley.edu, US aut Generalist and specialist predators that mediate permanence in ecological communities [Elektronische Daten] [Sebastian J. Schreiber] Abstract.:  General dynamic models of systems with two prey and one or two predators are considered. After rescaling the equations so that both prey have the same intrinsic rate of growth, it is shown that there exists a generalist predator that can mediate permanence if and only if there is a population density of a prey at which its per-capita growth rate is positive yet less than its competitor's invasion rate. In particular, this result implies that if the outcome of competition between the prey is independent of initial conditions, then there exists a generalist predator that mediates permanence. On the other hand, if the outcome of competition is contingent upon initial conditions (i.e., the prey are bistable), then there may not exist a suitable generalist predator. For example, bistable prey modeled by the Ayala-Gilpin (θ-Logistic) equations can be stabilized if and only if θ<1 for one of the prey. It is also shown that two specialist predators always can mediate permanence between bistable prey by creating a repelling heteroclinic cycle consisting of fixed points and limit cycles. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 1997 key words: Permanence nationallicence Bistability nationallicence Competition nationallicence Heteroclinic cycles nationallicence https://doi.org/10.1007/s002850050094 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s002850050094 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Schreiber Sebastian J. 151 Hilgard Hall, College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA e-mail: schreib/nature.berkeley.edu, US aut Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer