I'm working on a model in NetLogo and I'm having some difficulty wrapping my head around what one time step actually means. What I'm working on is similar to the wolf-sheep predation model. What would one time step in that model represent? Since each agent has an opportunity to reproduce at each time step, I would have thought that this would be about one year. But agents only move one step (one patch to another) at each time step, so this seems like it would be far less than a year. I want my model to best represent reality, so would like to work out exactly what each time step is.
Sorry if this is an obvious question, but it's something I've been thinking about for a while.
Thanks, Damien