Human influence on predator-prey relationship: Red Panda and Snow Leopard
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Animal Behavior, Biodiversity, Computational Biology, Ecology, Mathematical Biology
- Keywords
- Population Interaction, Influence of Human Activities on Population Interaction, Data Analysis, Population Estimation, Mathematical Modelling, Euler's method
- Copyright
- © 2019 Kafle
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2019. Human influence on predator-prey relationship: Red Panda and Snow Leopard. PeerJ Preprints 7:e27896v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27896v1
Abstract
This paper is a mathematical model based upon the human influence on the predator-prey relationship between Red Panda and Snow Leopard, which are the major species in the mountain ecosystem. It explores if these species get extinct in a certain area due to imbalance in their interaction. First, simple model of the species is discussed with no interaction between the species. Interactive model is then introduced to simulate their population when they interact with each other. The human influence is then introduced to the interactive model to observe if the species get extinct. The data in this paper are approximated for a certain area based upon the population density and habitat of the two species. All the models are simulated in python programs using Euler's method.
Author Comment
This is a preprint submission to PeerJ.