Lion, wildebeest and zebra: A predator–prey model
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In this paper, we describe our attempts to fit historical data from the Kruger National Park with a plausible one predator and two mutualistic prey model. Explicit examples of how a model is being developed, improved and tested are rare in literature. This is probably because of the many uncertainties, shortcomings in data, assumptions, speculations and intuitive decisions that form part of the process, which provokes a deep and well-founded fear of the resultingmodel being criticized.We investigate the effects of including or excluding various
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تاریخ انتشار 2006