Lotka 1920 (PNAS 6:410) and Volterra 1926 (Nature 118:558) independently derived the two-species predator-prey equations: ẋ = ax - bxy (prey grows logistically at rate a, consumed by predator at rate b·xy), ẏ = cxy - dy (predator grows…
Lotka-Volterra predator-prey: conservative oscillation as self-organisation
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