Food Webs: Ponds
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Investigate the food chains and webs of our most common communities. "For biology Newbyte's Food Webs: Ponds is a model of a living ecosystem and a tour de force." London Times Educational Suppliment - Online, 2005. Construct hundreds of food chains and webs using up to 45 organisms and then model the populations.
Fantastic for projects! Incorporate digital photography and data logging. Use your own species pictures in the software. Students can replace existing pictures with ones they have taken during their own pond study and even enter their own species into the environment. Integrate physical data collected about your pond by altering the physical parameters of the environment. The modelling software then works with your own ponds physical data and species. Web site support with additional species, pond environments and much more. Click here to see additional resources. Investigate the influence of introduced species and biological control. Personalise the software by having your school pond as the title or background picture. Model your food webs for up to 2 years Change the web easily during modelling to allow for the introduction of species and a changing ecosystem. Control levels of: Sewage Pollution, Phosphate, Nitrate, Turbidity and Thermal Pollution. Various graph types including biomass pyramid. Data can be saved as text or printed out for later analysis. Food Webs and modelling data can be easily saved.
Full Species Editor included make your own Species! Food Webs: Ponds includes Full Environment and Species Editor The integrated editor allows you to: Edit the physical environment to match your pond. Change existing species. Create new species. Import new species created by others. Simple to use curves allow vast amounts of data to be easily entered. A unique predator-prey interface allows you to easily decide what species eat and how important the prey are in their survival. Changes made directly affect the modelling of your web. Edit environmental data including yearly: Temperatures Sewage Pollution levels B.O.D. Turbidity Oxygen Levels pH Phosphate levels Nitrate Levels Light Intensity Edit species data including: Display Diagrams Physical Data Background Information Prey Reproduction, development Survival under different conditions Available for: Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP. Software supplied on CD. $499.00 for Full Site Licence including GST Others in the Series are: Food Webs; Australian Woodlands Investigate the Australian environment!