Predator and Prey interaction
April Htoo
04-16-14
Biology 152
Section-6
The environmental effects of predator and prey survival
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to identify how the environment influences the ability of predator and prey to detect each other. Environment plays a big role between predator and prey’s relationship (Zhao, 2014). The reasons are environment is a place that let the animals compete with each other for resources in order to survived and it’s also a place that its interaction occurred among species. The study of predator and prey interaction is important because we were able examined the influence between predator and prey evolution and the effect of prey’s population structure (Zhao, 2014). We observed the predator and prey interaction by playing a role of predator and prey with our group members. We did our experiment by set up the different structure of landscapes and different number of animals. At the end of the experiment, we found that land structure of the environment was one of the significant parts for prey survival.
Introduction
From my research, I found that heterogeneous environment was hard for a prey to survive. According to Zhao, he states that a free boundary was a problem for a prey- predator model in higher space dimensions and heterogeneous environment (Zhao, 2014). I think he tried to point out that a free landscapes or a place that doesn’t provide a prey to defend themselves caused the prey to be able to survive. On the other hand, the predators also have to adapt a safe environment that helps them to hunt the food in order survive as well. So, the survival rate of predator and prey are very depending on the environment that they chose to adapt. I have come up with two hypotheses that based on the question that asked from our experiment. The question was which distribution and which environment you think will be best for prey survival. My first hypothesis was I think even distribution will be best for prey survival and the other
04-16-14
Biology 152
Section-6
The environmental effects of predator and prey survival
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to identify how the environment influences the ability of predator and prey to detect each other. Environment plays a big role between predator and prey’s relationship (Zhao, 2014). The reasons are environment is a place that let the animals compete with each other for resources in order to survived and it’s also a place that its interaction occurred among species. The study of predator and prey interaction is important because we were able examined the influence between predator and prey evolution and the effect of prey’s population structure (Zhao, 2014). We observed the predator and prey interaction by playing a role of predator and prey with our group members. We did our experiment by set up the different structure of landscapes and different number of animals. At the end of the experiment, we found that land structure of the environment was one of the significant parts for prey survival.
Introduction
From my research, I found that heterogeneous environment was hard for a prey to survive. According to Zhao, he states that a free boundary was a problem for a prey- predator model in higher space dimensions and heterogeneous environment (Zhao, 2014). I think he tried to point out that a free landscapes or a place that doesn’t provide a prey to defend themselves caused the prey to be able to survive. On the other hand, the predators also have to adapt a safe environment that helps them to hunt the food in order survive as well. So, the survival rate of predator and prey are very depending on the environment that they chose to adapt. I have come up with two hypotheses that based on the question that asked from our experiment. The question was which distribution and which environment you think will be best for prey survival. My first hypothesis was I think even distribution will be best for prey survival and the other