Originally Posted By: BrentD
Geo, How does this strike you for common sense? Globally, in about a quarter of the predator/prey interactions out there, the prey population is larger in the presence of a specific predator species than when the predator is absent.


Well, it strikes me as common sense that the greater the prey population, the greater the predator population will be...what doesn't follow in my mind, is the idea that the predator presence causes the prey population to increase. Or, as Rookhawk pointed out above that population increase in the prey population is a healthy thing in the first place...Geo