Fig. 2

Impact of disturbance duration, strength and predator coupling to an alternative resource on transient dynamics. a, b Impact of press disturbance duration (varied from 2 to 12 days) projected by the model simulations for predator (a) and prey (b). Strength of disturbance was kept constant (40-fold). Disturbance has started on day 15. Color gradient shows the shortest (grey) to the longest (dark red) disturbance duration. c, d Impact of pulse disturbance strength (varied from 50 to 100,000-fold) projected by the model simulations for predator (c) and prey (d). Color gradient shows the lowest (grey) to the highest (dark red) disturbance strength. e, f Impact of predator coupling r _C to an alternative resource besides prey (varied from 0.007 to 0.011) under pulse disturbance (2500-fold dilution) projected by the model simulations for predator (e) and prey a (f). Color gradient shows the lowest (grey) to the highest (dark red) r _C values. Disturbance action is shown as grey shadows