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Effects of Hunting and Escaping Strategy of Predator and Prey on the Ecosystem
Understanding the predator-prey dynamics is essential to comprehend the ecosystem resilience and stability because ecosystems consist of dynamically interacting subsystems with predator-prey relationship. The relationship is likely to be of the predator and prey hunting-escaping strategy. Thus, to better understand the ecosystems, we should comprehend how the hunting and the escaping strategy affect the ecosystems. To do so, we constructed a spatially explicit lattice model to simulate the integrative predator-prey-plant relationships. When an individual simultaneously encounters its predator and/or prey, the individual should take priority between the two strategies. When the hunting (or escaping) strategy takes priority, we call it hunting preferred strategy, HPS, (or escaping preferred strategy, EPS). Each strategy was characterized by the willingness for each strategy. The degree of willingness was represented as H (for hunting) and E (for escaping). Higher value of H (or E) means stronger willingness for hunting (or escaping). We investigated the population density of each species for different values of H and E for HPS and EPS. The main conclusion that emerges from this study was that HPS plays a positive role in the ecosystem stability. In addition, we briefly discussed the development of the present model to be used to understand the predator-prey interaction in specific species.
