HIERARCHICAL RELATIONSHIPS AND SPATIAL EMERGENCE AMONGST MULTI-SPECIES ANIMATS

摘要

Predator-Prey animats in a spatial model have been found to form battlefronts and other geometrical arrangements that allow the two species to coexist in a dynamic equilibrium. We explore the consequences of adding a third super-predatorial species and the hierarchical relationships and spatial patterns that emerge. We compare our microscopic model with the predictions of a hierarchical species realisation of the predator-prey partial differential equation model based on the Lotka-Volterra equations.