When1: 1925
When2: 1926
Who: Alfred James Lotka [Lotka, Alfred James]
What: ecologist
Where: Italy
works\ Elements of Physical Biology [1925]
Detail: He lived 1880 to 1949. Mating, dying, or other-species effects cause predator-number and prey-number change rates {Lotka-Volterra differential equations, Lotka} [1926]. In ecosystems, predator and prey numbers can oscillate until reaching steady state, can continue to oscillate, or can become zero, so species is extinct.
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