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Identifying predator-prey processes from time-series.

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The functional response is a key element in predator-prey models as well as in food chains and food webs. Classical models consider it as a function of prey abundance only. However, many mechanisms can lead to predator dependence, and there is increasing evidence for the importance of this dependence. Identification of the mathematical form of the functional response from real data is therefore a challenging task. In this paper we apply model-fitting to test if typical ecological predator-prey time series data, which contain both observation error and process error, can give some information about the form of the functional response. Working with artificial data (for which the functional response is known) we will show that with moderate noise levels, identification of the model that generated the data is possible. However, the noise levels prevailing in real ecological time-series can give rise to wrong identifications. We will also discuss the quality of parameter estimation by fitting differential equations to such time-series.

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hal-00315353 , version 1 (28-08-2008)

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Christian Jost, Roger Arditi. Identifying predator-prey processes from time-series.. Theoretical Population Biology, 2000, 57 (4), pp.325-37. ⟨10.1006/tpbi.2000.1463⟩. ⟨hal-00315353⟩
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