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Invasive Species Simulation allows for observing the effects of an Invasive Producer, Invasive Herbivore, or Invasive Carnivore on a native Ecosystem’s Producers, Herbivores, and Carnivores.
Invasive Species Simulation allows for observing the effects of an Invasive Producer, Invasive Herbivore, or Invasive Carnivore on a native Ecosystem’s Producers, Herbivores, and Carnivores.
When using the simulation, the window needs to be re-sized once to show all features below. (This is a tech glitch to Starlogo Nova that will eventually be fixed.)
Variables (Changes to the Environment) include:
- Amount of Sunshine
- Inv Producer Reproduction Rate
- Inv Producer Growth Rate
- Inv Producer Harm to Native Producers Rate
- Inv Herbivore Reproduction Rate
- Inv Herbivore Growth Rate
- Inv Herbivore Harm to Naive Herbivore Rate
- Inv Carnivore Reproduction Rate
- Invasive Carnivore Growth Rate
- Invasive Carnivore Harm to Native Carnivore Rate
To Run the Simulation
To Run the Simulation
- Choose your Variables for amount of Sunshine (0-100).
- Click Setup-This will create the map with the native ecosystem populations.
- Choose Invasive rates for the Invasive Producers, Invasive Herbivores, and Invasive Carnivores to be studied.
- Click Setup to place rates in simulation program.
- Choose which Invader to simulate by clicking once on Invading Producer, Invading Herbivores, or Invading Carnivores. (Only choose one invader per simulation to observe. Do not choose two and run the simulation. The program does not take into account interactions between Invasive Species and will give incorrect results)
- Click Run Simulation to start, Click Run Simulation again to pause. (If Setup is clicked a new simulation will begin.)
- Use the Graphing Buttons to view the Show Total Consumers and Show Total Producers graphs and observe the output in the Population Readers for Native and Invasive populations.
- Reload the webpage if the program becomes frozen or not functioning properly.
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