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 have now ...

Alan Hastings is in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA, and at the Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

Predator-prey cycles are among the fundamental phenomena of ecological systems: the population sizes of predators and their prey, for instance foxes and hares, are frequently subject to regular ...

Evolution can alter the ecological dynamics of communities, but the effects depend on the magnitudes of standing genetic variation in the evolving species. Using an eco-coevolutionary predator–prey ...