AN IMPROVEMENT OF THE HOLLING TYPE III FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE IN ENTOMOPHAGOUS SPECIES MODEL

T. CABELLO, M. GÁMEZ, Z. VARGA
2007 Journal of biological systems  
In this study, we analyze the functional response for a parasitoid-host and a predatorprey system, as a tool of biological control of pests to evaluate the potential of bio-control agents. A possible biological interpretation was given to the adjustment coefficients of type I and II functional response by Hassell. 1 Based on this, we propose new expressions for type III in terms of a new parameter that we call entomophagous potential (parasitoid or predator), providing examples using actual
more » ... from trials carried out previously for parasitoid species Chelonus blackburni Cameron (Hym.: Braconidae) and predator species Joppeicus paradoxus Puton (Het.: Joppeicidae). The novelty of the paper consists in the fact that these new expressions for Holling type III functional response have a biological interpretation, and result in a better fit to data than Hassel's model.
doi:10.1142/s0218339007002325 fatcat:7e7u6uo4bzfy7kmlzegwax6kfi