This article analyzes the classical 2-resource–1-consumer apparent competition community
module with the Holling type II functional response. Two types of resource regulation (top-
down vs. combined top-down and bottom-up) and two types of consumer behaviors
(inflexible consumers with fixed preferences for resources vs. adaptive consumers) are
considered. When resources grow exponentially and consumers are inflexible foragers, one
resource is always outcompeted due to strong apparent competition. Density dependent …