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prey switching: a standalone construct

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Ecology

a predator's disproportionate shift toward whichever prey type is currently more common, which can stabilize prey populations.

In ecology, prey switching refers to a predator's disproportionate shift toward whichever prey type is currently more common, which can stabilize prey populations. This meaning comes from Murdoch (1969) in Ecological Monographs.[1]

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References

Murdoch, W. W. (1969). Switching in General Predators: Experiments on Predator Specificity and Stability of Prey Populations. Ecological Monographs, 39(4), 335-354. https://doi.org/10.2307/1942352

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