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We present a qualitative analysis of the dynamical properties of two-species Lotka-Volterra and Ricker-type predator-prey systems under discrete and continuous settings. By creating an arbitrary time discretisation, we obtain stability conditions that preserve the characteristics of continuous-time models and their numerically approximated systems. Here, we show that even small changes to some of the model parameters may alter the system dynamics unless an appropriate time discretisation is chosen to return similar dynamical behaviour to what is observed in the corresponding continuous-time system. We also found similar dynamical properties of the Ricker-type predator-prey systems under certain conditions. 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