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Stability Analysis of a Ratio-Dependent Predator-Prey Model Incorporating a Prey Refuge
A ratio-dependent predator-prey model incorporating a prey refuge with disease in the prey population is formulated and analyzed. The effects of time delay due to the gestation of the predator and stage structure for the predator on the dynamics of the system are concerned. By analyzing the corresponding characteristic equations, the local stability of a predator-extinction equilibrium and a coexistence equilibrium of the system is discussed, respectively. Further, it is proved that the system undergoes a Hopf bifurcation at the coexistence equilibrium, when Ï„=Ï„0. By comparison arguments, sufficient conditions are obtained for the global stability of the predator-extinction equilibrium. By using an iteration technique, sufficient conditions are derived for the global attractivity of the coexistence equilibrium of the proposed system
The Dynamic Complexity of a Holling Type-IV Predator-Prey System with Stage Structure and Double Delays
We invest a predator-prey model of Holling type-IV functional response with stage structure and double delays due to maturation time
for both prey and predator. The dynamical behavior of the system is investigated from the point of view of stability switches aspects. We assume that the
immature and mature individuals of each species are divided by a fixed age,
and the mature predator only attacks the mature prey. Based on some comparison arguments, sharp threshold conditions which are both necessary and
sufficient for the global stability of the equilibrium point of predator extinction
are obtained. The most important outcome of this paper is that the variation of
predator stage structure can affect the existence of the interior equilibrium point
and drive the predator into extinction by changing the maturation (through-stage) time delay. Our linear stability work and numerical results show that
if the resource is dynamic, as in nature, there is a window in maturation time
delay parameters that generate sustainable oscillatory dynamics
Moving forward in circles: challenges and opportunities in modelling population cycles
Population cycling is a widespread phenomenon, observed across a multitude of taxa in both laboratory and natural conditions. Historically, the theory associated with population cycles was tightly linked to pairwise consumer–resource interactions and studied via deterministic models, but current empirical and theoretical research reveals a much richer basis for ecological cycles. Stochasticity and seasonality can modulate or create cyclic behaviour in non-intuitive ways, the high-dimensionality in ecological systems can profoundly influence cycling, and so can demographic structure and eco-evolutionary dynamics. An inclusive theory for population cycles, ranging from ecosystem-level to demographic modelling, grounded in observational or experimental data, is therefore necessary to better understand observed cyclical patterns. In turn, by gaining better insight into the drivers of population cycles, we can begin to understand the causes of cycle gain and loss, how biodiversity interacts with population cycling, and how to effectively manage wildly fluctuating populations, all of which are growing domains of ecological research
Theoretical Study of Pest Control Using Stage Structured Natural Enemies with Maturation Delay: A Crop-Pest-Natural Enemy Model
In the natural world, there are many insect species whose individual members
have a life history that takes them through two stages, immature and mature.
Moreover, the rates of survival, development, and reproduction almost always
depend on age, size, or development stage. Keeping this in mind, in this paper,
a three species crop-pest-natural enemy food chain model with two stages for
natural enemies is investigated. Using characteristic equations, a set of
sufficient conditions for local asymptotic stability of all the feasible
equilibria is obtained. Moreover, using approach as in (Beretta and Kuang,
2002), the possibility of the existence of a Hopf bifurcation for the interior
equilibrium with respect to maturation delay is explored, which shows that the
maturation delay plays an important role in the dynamical behavior of three
species system. Also obtain some threshold values of maturation delay for the
stability-switching of the particular system. In succession, using the normal
form theory and center manifold argument, we derive the explicit formulas which
determine the stability and direction of bifurcating periodic solutions.
Finally, a numerical simulation for supporting the theoretical analysis is
given.Comment: 28 pages, 9 figure
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Robust permanence for ecological equations with internal and external feedbacks.
Species experience both internal feedbacks with endogenous factors such as trait evolution and external feedbacks with exogenous factors such as weather. These feedbacks can play an important role in determining whether populations persist or communities of species coexist. To provide a general mathematical framework for studying these effects, we develop a theorem for coexistence for ecological models accounting for internal and external feedbacks. Specifically, we use average Lyapunov functions and Morse decompositions to develop sufficient and necessary conditions for robust permanence, a form of coexistence robust to large perturbations of the population densities and small structural perturbations of the models. We illustrate how our results can be applied to verify permanence in non-autonomous models, structured population models, including those with frequency-dependent feedbacks, and models of eco-evolutionary dynamics. In these applications, we discuss how our results relate to previous results for models with particular types of feedbacks
Evolution of predator dispersal in relation to spatio-temporal prey dynamics : how not to get stuck in the wrong place!
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