June 2025
Intermediate to advanced
515 pages
17h 5m
English
Several animal species eat a purely plant-based diet. Other animal species (predators), on the other hand, depend on live animals (prey) as a food source. In this project task, the relationship between the predator and prey populations will be studied in its development over time. This development can be described by means of a first-order nonlinear differential equation system. The following idealized assumptions will be made:
In the considered area, no in-migrations and no out-migrations of either population occur.
Neither predators nor prey are decimated by pathogens.
Predators specialize in one prey species.
For the derivation of the differential equation system, the notion of the growth ...
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