Building clone-consistent ecosystem models
Fig 1
Example of clone inconsistency: Two simulations of a simple predator–prey scenario using the same general model (see text for details).
Solid lines: simulation using one population for prey (blue, antelopes) and predators (orange, lions) each. The initial abundances are x1(0) = 2 and x2(0) = 6 (animal heads in the top legend). Dashed lines: same, but with two identical predator sub-populations (pink and ocher) with half the initial abundance; the abundance shown for the predators is the sum over the two sub-populations. The simulations were run with JiTCODE [51] using the DoPri5 method (S1 Code).