A Mathematical Model to Study the Growth of Dominant Herbivores

Nabajyoti Bhattacharjee¹

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Isroset-Journal
Vol.6 , Issue.3 , pp.31-34, Jun-2019

CrossRef-DOI:   https://doi.org/10.26438/ijsrmss/v6i3.3134

Online published on Jun 30, 2019

Copyright © Nabajyoti Bhattacharjee . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
The National Parks, Wildlife Reservoir and Sanctuary are declared to save some specific species from extinction in that region. But due to ecological and social disturbances the growth rate of rhinoceros gets affected and consequently their number reduces from the actual number. In this paper, we shall construct a mathematical model to describe the growth rate of a dominant herbivore species like rhinoceros and elephant to study and investigate graphically the effect of both ecological(natural birth and death, intraspecific, interspecific competition) and social(poachers) disturbances in the growth of that species in that region and in a given period of time.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Mathematical modelling, Difference equation, Population dynamics, Poaching, Competition, Predation

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