Figure 3.

Predation rates in the continuous landscape. (a) Yellow dots indicate 98 × 98 points (for clarity, only 16 × 16 are shown) that were used to generate time traces (thin blue lines show single time traces for one virtual patch, the fat black line represents the mean) from patches of the continuous landscape. The maximum predation rate is extracted from individual traces. (b) Distribution of the maximal rate of decay of four virtual patches. (c) All time traces of all virtual patches within a continuous habitat (thin red lines show single time traces for one patch, the fat black line represents the mean). (d) The distributions of the maximum decay rates calculated for all points in all virtual ‘patches’ within the continuous landscape.