Model-based, response-surface approaches to quantifying indirect interactions

Introduction Community dynamics are determined by demographic processes such as reproduction and predation. These demographic processes are influenced in turn by individual traits. While earlier community models assumed that individual traits were static (e.g., Rosenzweig and MacArthur 1963), in the past decade community studies have begun to focus on flexible traits (see Abrams 2010, for review). For example, the Holling type II functional …