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Modern theoretical ecology owes much to the modeling legacies of Vito Volterra, Alfred Lotka, and Georgii F. Gause. In 1949, Hutchinson and Deevey (1949) acknowledged their contribution by writing “Perhaps the most important theoretical development in general ecology has been the application of the logistic by Volterra, Gause, and Lotka to 2 species cases.” To this group we should add the name of C. S. Holling who, in the late 1950s (Holling, 1959), made important contributions to quantifying the rate at which consumers exploit resource populations in two species interactions.
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Getz, W.M. (1994). A Metaphysiological Approach to Modeling Ecological Populations and Communities. In: Levin, S.A. (eds) Frontiers in Mathematical Biology. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 100. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-50124-1_25
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