Monte Carlo simulation of age-dependent host–parasite relations

Dietrich Stauffer, Ana Proykova and Karl-Heinz Lampe

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2007, vol. 384, issue 2, 387-391

Abstract: The death of a biological population is an extreme event which we investigate here for a host–parasitoid system. Our simulations using the Penna ageing model show how biological evolution can “teach” the parasitoids to avoid extinction by waiting for the right age of the host. We also show the dependence of extinction time on the population size.

Keywords: Penna model; Food; Self-organisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2007.05.028

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