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This document provides instructions for a simulation that models how two species with the same niche (blue and gray) affect one another's population dynamics when introduced alone and together into an ecosystem. Students are asked to run trials tracking population sizes over generations to compare carrying capacities and growth rates between conditions. They then analyze the results to answer how the presence of one species impacts the other's population in relation to competition for shared resources.

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Competition A

This document provides instructions for a simulation that models how two species with the same niche (blue and gray) affect one another's population dynamics when introduced alone and together into an ecosystem. Students are asked to run trials tracking population sizes over generations to compare carrying capacities and growth rates between conditions. They then analyze the results to answer how the presence of one species impacts the other's population in relation to competition for shared resources.

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Competition

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Experimental Question: How is a species’ population dynamics affected by the presence of another
species with the same niche?

Write a hypothesis:

Procedure/Data:

1. Read the Introduction.


2. Set Blue to 10 and Gray to 0. Run three times and record the estimated carrying capacity and
the number of generations it took to reach the carrying capacity.
Time to reach
Carrying
Blue Alone Carrying
Capacity
Capacity

Trial 1

Trial 2

Trial 3

Average

3. Set Blue to 0 and Gray to 10. Run three times and record the estimated carrying capacity and
the number of generations it took to reach the carrying capacity.
Time to reach
Carrying
Gray Alone Carrying
Capacity
Capacity

Trial 1

Trial 2

Trial 3

Average
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4. Set both Blue and Gray to 10. Run three times and record the estimated carrying capacity and
the number of generations it took to reach the carrying capacity.
Time to Reach Time to Reach
Blue and Grey Blue Carrying Gray Carrying
Carrying Capacity Carrying Capacity
Together Capacity Capacity
(Blue) (Gray)

Trial 1

Trial 2

Trial 3

Average

Find the average growth rate for the period prior to reaching the carrying capacity and record below
((Carrying capacity – 10) / Time).
Average
Growth Rate
Blue Alone

Gray Alone

Blue Together

Gray Together

Graph: Make a graph to compare the growth rates.


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Discussion:

1. Compare the blue and gray carrying capacities when alone in the ecosystem.

2. Compare the blue and gray growth rates when alone in the ecosystem.

3. How is the blue species affected by the presence of the gray species?

4. How is the gray species affected by the presence of the blue species?

5. Research and describe Georgy Gause’s P. caudatum and P. aurelia experiment.

Conclusion:

Based on your results and research, answer the original experimental question: How is a species’
population dynamics affected by the presence of another species with the same niche?

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