com.rubecula.darwin.core
Interface Fecundity

All Known Implementing Classes:

Fecundity_Abstract, Fecundity_Default

public interface Fecundity

Defines methods to determine how fecund will be a particular mating in a population, i.e. how many progeny should be created per generation for each mating pair.

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $

Author:

Robin Hillyard

Method Summary

int	getFecundity(double saturation) Determine the number of progeny for each pair per generation.

Method Detail

getFecundity

int getFecundity(double saturation)

Determine the number of progeny for each pair per generation.

Parameters:

saturation - The population saturation (1 would be exactly saturated): this may be used as a heuristic for determining fecundity.

Returns:

a number greater than 0