Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Scientists often divide predator species into two camps: ...

In the present article, a prey–predator–scavenger model is proposed and investigated with quadratic harvesting of predator and scavenger populations. The system is assumed to follow the Crowley–Martin ...

By Ruth Kamnitzer Open any ecology textbook and you’ll find the Canada lynx, the snowshoe hare, and their wildly oscillating population cycles offered as a classic example of the intimate relationship ...

Marine predator–prey interactions underpin the structure and function of coastal, pelagic and deep-sea environments. Predation exerts top-down control on prey populations, driving evolutionary ...

Predators are typically larger, faster, and more powerful than the animals they hunt. Yet in nature, most attacks fail. A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, by ...

In a Puerto Rican coffee farm, researchers uncovered a web of chaotic interactions between three ant species and a predator fly, revealing how shifting dominance patterns make pest management ...