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- | ==== Introduction ==== | + | ===== Introduction |
+ | Predator and prey interact antagonistically, | ||
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+ | California sea otter (//Enhydra lutris nereis//), in spite of being super cute, are also voracious predators who really like to eat abalones (//Haliotis cracherodii// | ||
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+ | ===== Assignment ===== | ||
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+ | The interaction between predator and prey can be far more complex than the one depicted by the Lotka-Volterra model. Propose a mathetical model to describe the essential components needed to understand the dynamics between sea otters and black abalone. Your model should address how conservation efforts targeting one or both species would affect their population densities. | ||
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+ | ===== Proposed Questions ===== | ||
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+ | *One interesting (and perhaps counterintuitive) result found by the authors is that the increase in predator population density leads to a positive relation with prey density. The authors propose three hypotheses to explain this pattern. Tailor your mathematical model to describe the processes assumed by at least one of the hypothesis and evaluate it. | ||
+ | *Sea otter density is correlated with black abalone density. How habitat use of prey affects the result found by the authors, specially concerning refuges? | ||
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+ | ==== References ===== | ||
+ | *Raimondi //et al.// (2015) // |
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