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Lotka, Volterra and the predator–prey system (1920–1926)

  • Bacaër N
Springer London, (2011), 71-76
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-85729-115-8_13
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In 1920 Alfred Lotka studied a predator–prey model and showed that the populations could oscillate permanently. He developed this study in his 1925 book Elements of Physical Biology. In 1926 the Italian mathematician Vito Volterra happened to become interested...

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Bacaër, N. (2011). Lotka, Volterra and the predator–prey system (1920–1926). In A Short History of Mathematical Population Dynamics (pp. 71–76). Springer London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-115-8_13

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