When1: 1883
When2: 1930
Who: Vito J. Volterra [Volterra, Vito J.]
What: mathematician/ecologist
Where: Italy
works\ Theory of Functionals and of Integral and Integro-Differential Equations [1930]
Detail: He lived 1860 to 1940 and studied integral equations [1883]. Mating, dying, or other-species effects cause predator-number and prey-number change rates {Lotka-Volterra differential equations, Volterra} [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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