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Stella Simulation
Stella Simulation
LYNX
HARE
OBJECTIVES:
To conduct an experiment using STELLA Software.
To know how to make the stimulation using STELLA
Software.
To study how to integrate STELLA in teaching and
learning process.
To investigate how the number of predators affects
the number of prey and vice versa.
GRAPH 1
It shows that the number of lynx and hares is stable throughout the years. This means that
there is no environmental complexility in the ecosystem. The number of lynx is balance with
the number of hare. The birth rate of hares can afford the needed from lynx. That is why from
the graph we can see that the interaction between the predator and prey is constant
throughout the year. There is no increasing or decreasing number for both predator and prey.
GRAPH 2
It shows that the size of 1 time lynx harvest is increasing as the number of hares increase. At
the beginning of the graph, the lynx is drop a little bit as the hares constant. This is because
when the number of hares becomes constant for such a long time, the number of lynx will
decrease because there is no food for them. If the food source decreases, the competition
between predators will become tight. There is no increasing in food source so the predator will
die thus the shows the decreasing in number. The following pattern shows that the increasing of
hares will increase the total number of lynx.
GRAPH 3
Compared to graph 2 the number of both prey (hares) and predator (predator) is slightly
increase. The concept is still same as is mention at graph 2.
GRAPH 4
Graph 4 also shows the same pattern with tremendously increasing number of both lynx and hares.
This shows that the lynx have enough food supply from the increasing number of hare.
conclusion