Competitive Exclusion

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ecological competition 

Tagged by David Black about 4 years ago

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breed [white-footed-mice white-footed-mouse]
breed [jumping-mice jumping-mouse]
breed [weasels weasel]

white-footed-mice-own [wfm-energy]
jumping-mice-own [jm-energy]
patches-own [is-opening?
  regrowth
]

to setup
  if behaviorspace-run-number <= 1 [
    setup-habitat
  ]
  setup-animals
end 

to setup-animals
  clear-turtles
  clear-all-plots
  set-default-shape white-footed-mice "squirrel"
  create-white-footed-mice Number-White-Footed-Mice
  [
  set color grey
  set size 4
  setxy random-xcor random-ycor
  set wfm-energy 100
  ]

  set-default-shape jumping-mice "squirrel"
  create-jumping-mice Number-jumping-Mice
  [
  set color red
  set size 4
  setxy random-xcor random-ycor
  set jm-energy 100
  ]

  set-default-shape weasels "weasel"
  create-weasels Number-of-Weasels
  [
  set color yellow
  set size 8
  setxy random-xcor random-ycor
  ]


  reset-ticks
end 

to go
  wfm-forage
  wfm-lifecycle
  weasels-lifecycle
  jm-forage
  jm-lifecycle
  weasel-hunt
  eat-wfm
  eat-jm
  grow-food-opening
  grow-food-forest
  drought
  if count white-footed-mice <= 0 or count jumping-mice <= 0
     [stop]
  tick
end 

to setup-habitat
  clear-patches
  ask patches [
    set is-opening? false
  ]
  ask n-of Number-of-openings patches [
    set is-opening? true
       set pcolor white
    ask other (patches in-radius (Diameter-of-openings / 2)) [
      set is-opening? true
      set pcolor white
    ]

  ]
  ask patches [
    set regrowth 50
  ]
end 

to grow-food-opening
  ask patches [
    if pcolor = green [
    set regrowth (regrowth - 1)
    if regrowth <= 0 [
      set pcolor white
      set regrowth 50
    ]
    ]
  ]
end 

to grow-food-forest
   ask patches [
    if pcolor = sky [
    set regrowth (regrowth - 1)
    if regrowth <= 0 [
      set pcolor black
      set regrowth 50
    ]
    ]
  ]
end 

to wfm-forage
   ask white-footed-mice [
    rt random 45
    lt random 45
    forward 1

    if pcolor = white [
      set pcolor green
      set wfm-energy (wfm-energy + EV-Opening-White-Footed-Mouse)]

      if pcolor = black [
      set pcolor sky
      set wfm-energy (wfm-energy + EV-Forest-White-Footed-Mouse)]

      if pcolor = sky [
      set wfm-energy (wfm-energy - Cost-of-Moving)]

      if pcolor = green [
      set wfm-energy (wfm-energy - Cost-of-Moving)]

   ]
end 

to jm-forage
   ask jumping-mice [
    rt random 45
    lt random 45
    forward 1

    if pcolor = white [
      set pcolor green
      set jm-energy (jm-energy + EV-Opening-Jumping-Mouse)]

      if pcolor = black [
      set pcolor sky
      set jm-energy (jm-energy + EV-Forest-Jumping-Mouse)]

      if pcolor = sky [
      set jm-energy (jm-energy - Cost-of-Moving)]

      if pcolor = green [
      set jm-energy (jm-energy - Cost-of-Moving)]

   ]
end 

to jm-lifecycle
  ask jumping-mice [
    jm-reproduce
    jm-death]
end 

to wfm-lifecycle
  ask white-footed-mice [
    wfm-reproduce
    wfm-death]
end 

to weasels-lifecycle
  ask weasels [
    eat-wfm
    eat-jm]
end 

to wfm-reproduce
  if wfm-energy > 100 [
  set wfm-energy wfm-energy / 2
  hatch 1
  ]
end 

to wfm-death
  if wfm-energy <= 0 [
  die
  ]
end 

to jm-death
  if jm-energy <= 0 [
    die
  ]
end 

to jm-reproduce
  if jm-energy > 100 [
  set jm-energy jm-energy / 2
  hatch 1
  ]
end 

to weasel-hunt
  ask weasels [
  rt random 30
  lt random 30
  forward 1
  ]
end 

to eat-wfm
   ask weasels [
  if any? (white-footed-mice-here)
    [ask one-of white-footed-mice-here
    [die]  ]
]
end 

to eat-jm
  ask weasels [
  if any? (jumping-mice-here)
    [ask one-of jumping-mice-here
    [die]  ]
]
end 

to drought
  let probdie ceiling count white-footed-mice * Effect-of-drought
  if random-float 1 <= probability-of-drought
     [ask n-of probdie white-footed-mice[
     die]
     ]

  let probdie2 ceiling count jumping-mice * Effect-of-drought
  if random-float 1 <= probability-of-drought
     [ask n-of probdie2 jumping-mice
       [die]
     ]
end 

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