Please help me solve this for ecology, need it asap, thank you! 1. In this activ

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Please help me solve this for ecology, need it asap, thank you!

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In this activity, you will use inequalities generated by the Lotka-Volterra competition model to determine when two species will co-exist or drive each other to extinction. We will consider competition between two species of Paramecium: P. caudatum and P. aurelia. We will begin by making the following simplifying assumptions (these will be relaxed later): P. caudatum is "species 1" P. aurelia is "species 2" N1 N (the actual value of N does not matter for our purposes) Remember the following inequalities (note: these particular inequalities apply only to the special case where K K2): Species 1 and species 2 co-exist when ? 1 and ?

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N1= Population size of species 1

N2= Population size of species 2

r1= Intrinsic rate of species 1

r2= Intrinsic rate of species 2

K1= Carrying capacity of species 1

K2= Carrying capacity of species 2

? = Competition coefficient of species 1 with respect to 2 (effect of species 2 on 1)

? = Competition coefficient of species 2 with respect to 1 (effect of species 1 on 2)

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