Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The paradox of enrichment is a term from population ecology coined by Michael Rosenzweig in 1971. He described an effect in six predator-prey models wherein increasing the food available to the prey caused the predator's population to destabilize. A common example is that if the food supply of a prey such as a rabbit is overabundant, its population will grow unbounded and cause the predator population (such as a lynx) to grow unsustainably large. This may result in a crash in the population of the predators and possibly lead to local eradication or even species extinction.The term 'paradox' has been used since then to describe this effect in slightly conflicting ways. The original sense was one of irony; that by attempting to increase carrying capacity in an ecosystem, one could fatally imbalance it. Since then, some authors have used the word to describe the difference between modelled and real predator-prey interactions."@en }
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- Paradox_of_enrichment abstract "The paradox of enrichment is a term from population ecology coined by Michael Rosenzweig in 1971. He described an effect in six predator-prey models wherein increasing the food available to the prey caused the predator's population to destabilize. A common example is that if the food supply of a prey such as a rabbit is overabundant, its population will grow unbounded and cause the predator population (such as a lynx) to grow unsustainably large. This may result in a crash in the population of the predators and possibly lead to local eradication or even species extinction.The term 'paradox' has been used since then to describe this effect in slightly conflicting ways. The original sense was one of irony; that by attempting to increase carrying capacity in an ecosystem, one could fatally imbalance it. Since then, some authors have used the word to describe the difference between modelled and real predator-prey interactions.".