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Can Vertebrate Predators Regulate Their Prey?

Whether vertebrate predators can regulate their prey or not has long been a controversial question. At the one extreme it has been claimed that predators have no impact on prey numbers but consume only a doomed surplus (Errington 1946), and at the other that predators strongly interact with their prey causing either stable equilibria or cycles (Tanner 1975; Keith et al. 1977). However,.there are no field studies showing a regulatory effect of predation among vertebrates. Here we report on such a study.

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