The phrase "assumed prey" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing predation, ecology, or any situation where something is taken for granted as a target or victim.
Example: "In the study of predator-prey dynamics, researchers often focus on the behaviors of assumed prey to understand survival strategies."
Alternatives: "presumed target" or "expected victim".
In [10], Chatterjee and Chattopadhyay assumed the prey population migrated with disease and proposed a one-season eco-epidemiological predator-prey model for migratory birds.
for Abudefduf sexfasciatus was very similar to the of δ15N of their assumed zooplankton prey at around 6‰ (6.19‰ (±0.01) for the >500 µm fraction, 6.09‰ (±0.00) for >300 µm and 6.26‰ (±0.20) for >105 µm, A.S.J. Wyatt, unpublished data).
The net is reusable, assuming your prey doesn't destroy or run off with it.
It is assumed that the prey population is hibernator, and the predators depend on prey as their source of food; if there is no prey, the predator population will disappear.
In system (1.1), it is assumed that the prey grows logistically with carrying capacity K and intrinsic growth rate r in the absence of predators.
In (1.1), it has been assumed that the prey grows logistically with growth rate r 1 (t) and carrying capacity r 1 t)/a 11 t) in the absence of predation.
In the models challenging the classical view, a Pavlovian predator is assumed to attack prey with a fixed, non-zero asymptotic attack probability, after learning during a given time interval [18], [20], [23], whose value depends on the level of prey unpalatability.
The natural death rates (w_{i1}), (w_{i2}) and (w_{i3}) ((i=1,2)) are assumed for the immature prey population, mature prey population, and predator population in patch i ((i=1,2)).
The predator-prey system (1) assumes that the prey grows logistically with intrinsic growth rate r and carrying capacity K in the absence of predation.
My response to Jesse was that one should never underestimate prey, and one shouldn't even assume they are prey.
