Fig. 2.

Responses of two species with a competition–defense tradeoff to simulated perturbations in resource supply and consumer mortality. The responses in the large panels are species’ log response ratios relative to their preperturbation densities (defined at t = 250). Perturbations are included for reference in the small panels. (A) The species more limited by predation (species 1) benefits more from the decrease in consumer pressure than the resistant species (species 2). (B) The poor resource competitor (species 2) benefits more from resource addition than the strong resource competitor (species 1). See SI Text for a full description of the model.