May be this will help you - Trophic Cascades: Predators, Prey, and the Changing Dynamics of Nature, by John Terborgh and James A Estes, 2010; - Ecology of Predator-Prey Interactions, by Pedro Barbosa and Ignacio Castellanos, 2005; - Predator-Prey Dynamics: The Role of Olfaction, by Michael R Conover, 2007.
If your model is "discrete", for example an insects population without generations overlapping (see J.R. Beddington, C.A. Free, J.H. Lawton. Nature, vol. 255, 1975, 58-60), in general it will be of Dim2 noninvertible map (recurrence relationship) type.
The problem of fractional iterates is mentioned (but not really dealt) in pp. 17, 70,71, 96, 100, 101 of the book: I. Gumowski & C. Mira "Recurrences and Discrete Dynamic Systems" lecture Notes in Mathematics n°809, Springer Verlag, 1980.
In the case of a Dim1 noninvertible recurrence, revealing the problem difficulties, the paper "Sur l'itération fractionnaire d'un endomorphisme quadratique", C. Mira, S. Mullenbach, C. R. Acad. Sciences Paris, série 1, t. 297, 369-372, 1983, shows how solve this topic.
The case of a Dim2 noninvertible recurrence, the problem is only approached in Chapter 8 (pp. 125-133) of the S. Mullenbach thesis "Contribution à l'étude de l'itération fractionnaire des endomorphismes" (Doctorat 3ème cycle, spécialité mathématiques appliquées, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse, 26 mai 1983).
Best wishes of success for your research work.
C. Mira
Article Sur l'itération fractionnaire d'un endomorphisme quadratique