PPT-Predator-prey relationships

Predators Predators are animals that eat other animals for food Barn Owl Mountain Lion Predators are carnivores animals that eat meat or omnivores . Community Ecology:. Antagonism (part 2).. Antagonisms: . Prey and predator are differently motivated:. Whereas the prey runs for its life, the predator runs for a meal.. Or, when the predator loses it misses a meal; when the prey is defeated, it loses its life.. Herbivory. Photo . of acorns & weevil grub from . http://www.insectimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=0014201. Predators (active foragers, ambush predators, sit-and-wait predators, . etc. .). . Suharsh Sivakumar. December 11, 2010. Cellular Automaton. A grid of cells where all the cells are governed by a common set of rules based on the number of adjacent neighbors.. As generations go by, the rules work together to show very interesting phenomena in the big picture. . Introduction. Before you begin predict what will happen to the camouflage and visual acuity scores of the prey and predator over 10 generations. . Write . a hypothesis in your lab notebook.. Game set up. Design of an . adaptive . r. obot . controller for a predator-prey task using e-puck robots. The Goal. To . design. an . adaptive. . robot controller . capable of performing a . predator-prey task. Kelsey Vitense. “Current . Challenges for Mathematical Modelling of Cyclic . Populations” Workshop at BIRS. 11/12/13. Outline:. Motivation. . . Models. Results. Next steps. Meadow Vole. Many cyclic mammalian species undergo dramatic fluctuations in abundance in north but exhibit damped dynamics in south. Predator and Prey. The term . predator. can be used for any organism that feeds on other organisms. . Cougars . feeding on a . White-tail Deer . carcass may come to mind but we can also consider the . Predator-prey theory. Basics (. Lotka-Volterra. ). Functional responses and risk. Effect on phase-planes. Dynamics. Paradox of enrichment. Predator interference and ratio dependence. How do predators respond to prey?. Leslie-Gower Predator-Prey . Model. Dynamic . Behaviors of a Harvesting . Leslie-Gower Predator-Prey . Model. Na Zhang,. 1. Fengde Chen,. 1. Qianqian Su,. 1. and Ting Wu. 2. 1. College of Mathematics and Computer Science, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350002, Fujian, China. By: Alexandra Silva and . Dani. Hoover. Intro to Systems ESE 251. 11/24/09. History. Alfred . Lotka. Vito . Volterra. -American biophysicist. -Proposed the predator-prey model in 1925. -Italian mathematician. t. emporally extensive cycling. More direct data on population density (not simply the harvest data). The data align well with . Lotka-Volterra. Predator-Prey . M. odel predictions. 0 5 10. Our simulation will consist of a game in which predators (students) with different size mouths (forceps) will compete to capture prey (beans) which vary in color. . There . are four predator phenotypes (different size and shaped forceps) and four prey phenotypes differing in color and size: white-large, brown-medium (+), black- medium (-), & tan-small).. Predator-Prey, Parasitoid-Host & Parasite-Host Relationships. “Nature red in tooth & claw”. Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 1892). Why study predation & parasitism? . A basic-science answer:. Science. Challenge answer. Investigate and make note of animals and plants that have parasitic relationships and describe why they are parasitic.. Head lice on humans gain food and a home. Humans get itchy hair..