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This document summarizes a student project on modeling predator-prey relationships between barn owls and rats in oil palm plantations using the modeling and simulation program Stella. It introduces modeling and simulation and defines modeling and simulation. It then describes the predator-prey relationship between owls and rats and includes three graphs showing how their populations relate over time. The conclusion emphasizes that considering biological factors like predation, in addition to chemical measures, can help regulate rat pest populations in a more sustainable way.

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Stella Software

This document summarizes a student project on modeling predator-prey relationships between barn owls and rats in oil palm plantations using the modeling and simulation program Stella. It introduces modeling and simulation and defines modeling and simulation. It then describes the predator-prey relationship between owls and rats and includes three graphs showing how their populations relate over time. The conclusion emphasizes that considering biological factors like predation, in addition to chemical measures, can help regulate rat pest populations in a more sustainable way.

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SSI 3013

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN SCIENCE


GROUP B

STELLA: MODELLING AND SIMULATION


LECTURER: EN AZMI BIN IBRAHIM
Group Members

Matric Number

1. ARIFAH ADLINA BINTI RASHAHAN

D20161075231

2. CHUA XIAO XUAN

D20161075225

INTRODUCTION
Modelling and simulation
give lots of benefits in education and become a part of advanced learning session.

It also offer opportunity for students to manipulate content knowledge in an active


context which engage a variety of learning styles.
Modelling
A way of expressing a particular view of an identifiable system of some kind.

May include a graphical display that you can see on a computer screen or by
means of some other visual device.
Simulation
A tool to evaluate the performance of a system, existing or proposed, under
different configurations of interest and over long periods of real time.
Can be used to predict the way in which the system will evolve and respond to its
surroundings, so that you can identify any necessary changes that surely will help
make the system perform the way that you want exactly.

PREDATOR PREY RELATIONSHIP


The predator prey relationships are an important population control for
animals in many ecosystems.
A predator is an animal that eats other animals. The animals that
predators eat are called prey.
In a predator prey relationship at the individual level, members of the
predator species benefit and members of the prey are harmed. At the
population level, predation plays a role in evolution by natural selection.
For this case, the predator is owl and the prey is rats.

GRAPH 1:
MAXIMUM POPULATION OF RATS AND BARN OWLS

GRAPH 2: MINIMUM POPULATION OF RATS AND


MAXIMUM POPULATION OF BARN OWLS

GRAPH 3: MAXIMUM POPULATION OF RATS AND


MINIMUM POPULATION OF BARN OWLS

CONCLUSION
I.

Rats and barn owls acts as the prey and predators in oil palm area.

II.

Rat is the major pests in palm oil plantations


Causing losses due to damaged oil palms.

III. Regulating pest numbers has economic and environmental costs


and has always been of great interest to farmers and nature
conservationists.
IV. To reduce rat numbers poison baits are used more often than
biological control. However, poisoning has environmental impacts
and ignores the underlying biological factors that influence pest
abundance.
V. Regulation of pests in oil palm plantations should not be limited to
chemical measures but can be complemented by other biological
factors including interspecific interactions, manipulation of the
availability and density of food and habitat structure, in addition to
predation by barn owls.

THANK YOU

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