Learn how reintroduced species shape predator-prey dynamics!
This simulator models a predator-prey interaction between the populations of two species. It's based on the Volterra-Lotka model. An extra effect has been added to the original model: species reintroduction in the wild.
In 1926, Vito Volterra proposed a predator-prey model to explain oscillatory levels of particular fish catches in the Adriatic sea. In 1925, Alfred Lotka had proposed the same equations for a predator-prey system. They arrived at the equations independently.
The Volterra-Lotka model was the starting point of a golden age of theoretical ecology.
