Competitive Exclusion
Gause's principle: two species competing for a single limiting resource cannot coexist indefinitely
Lotka-Volterra Parameters
Species 1 growth r₁:
1.0
Species 1 K₁:
100
Species 2 growth r₂:
0.8
Species 2 K₂:
120
Competition α (1→2):
0.8
Competition β (2→1):
1.2
Restart
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State
N₁ (purple)
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N₂ (pink)
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K₁/β vs K₂
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K₂/α vs K₁
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Coexistence requires each species to limit itself more than the other. When α·β > 1 with wrong isocline order, one species always wins.