Some Characteristics of Simple Types of Predation and Parasitism
1959/07/01 by C. S. Holling · 4,632 citations
Environmental Science · Medicine · #Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies #Biology #Ecology #Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies #Functional response #Host (biology) #Larva #Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models #Parasitism #Population #Predation #Predator #Sawfly
paper · doi:10.4039/ent91385-7
published in The Canadian Entomologist 91(7), 385-398 (Cambridge University Press)
openalex publication_date 1959/07/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Abstract
In an earlier study (Holling, 1959) the basic and subsidiary components of predation were demonstrated in a predator-prey situation involving the predation of sawfly cocoons by small mammals. One of the basic components, termed the functional response, was a response of the consumption of prey by individual predators to changes of prey density, and it appeared to be at least theoretically important in population regulation: Because of this importance the functional response has been further examined in an attempt to explain its characteristics.
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