-L. > wrote:
>
>Blair P. Houghton wrote:
>> >
>> >Not necessarily, if the initial population numbers were skewed too far
>> >in the favor of the carp.
>>
>> Initially, there were no carp.
>>
>
>Sigh. The initial *competitive* populations. I'm not inclined to
>explain this further,

You're not qualified to, either.

Go take a class in partial differential equations.
The "predator-prey" cycle is a classic example about
a quarter of the way into the book.

If these things had a predator population, they'd
be exploding, too, then the carp population would
drop, then the predator population would drop, then
the carp population would explode, then the predator
population would explode, etc.

>but suffice it to say, if the reproduction of the
>carp is such that it overpopulates the niche before the preadtors can
>"catch up" so to speak, the predators will not impact the prey
>populations significantly. Introducing more predatory species *could*
>put the relationship back in balance.

Anything that would prey on these would eat all the
other fish, too.

You know, like humans.

--Blair