1. General Model Information
Name: WA-TOR
Acronym: WATOR
Main medium: terrestrial
Main subject: populationdynamics
Organization level: ecosystem
Type of model: ordinary differential equations
Main application:
Keywords: shark population, fish population, educational model
Contact:
Dr. Warren L. Kovach
Kovach Computing Services
85 Nant-Y-Felin
Pentraeth, Anglesey LL75 8UY
Wales, U.K.
e-mail: warrenk@cix.compulink.co.uk
CompuServe: 100016,2265
Author(s):
Abstract:
WA-TOR FOR WINDOWS - the sharks and fish model and game for Microsoft Windows. This program allows you to create your own world, populated with tasty fish and hungry sharks, and watch how the population changes through time. You can change parameters that determine how often the sharks and fish breed and how soon the sharks will starve if they can't eat a fish. If you get the settings right, the populations will live for a long time. Get them wrong, however, and the sharks might eat up all the fish, then starve to death. They might also all die off before finding any fish to feed on. It is fun to cheer on the sharks and fish as they battle it out, but this game is also a simulation of some ideas from population ecology, although it is a very simplistic model. The idea for this game comes from A.K. Dewdney's "Computer Recreations" column in the December 1984 issue of Scientific American. see also: read about Watorw
Installation and operation instructions may all be found in the readme and zip files downloadable from Ecology Software Subjects (see Data below) on the Illinois Natural History Survey Wildlife Ecology Software Server ( a "Magellan" 4 star sight!).
Software requires pkunzip to extract.
Author of the abstract: Copyright (C) 1993, WARREN L. KOVACH
II. Technical Information
II.1 Executables:
Operating System(s): WINDOWS Download: wator.zip
II.2 Source-code:
Programming Language(s):
II.3 Manuals:
II.4 Data:
III. Mathematical Information
III.1 Mathematics
III.2 Quantities
III.2.1 Input
III.2.2 Output
IV. References
V. Further information in the World-Wide-Web
Ecology Software Subject Index
VI. Additional remarks
Last review of this document by: 29.6.96
Status of the document:
last modified by
Tobias Gabele Wed Aug 21 21:44:52 CEST 2002