Influence of stochastic perturbation on prey-predator systems

We analyse the influence of various stochastic perturbations on prey-predator systems. The prey-predator model is described by stochastic versions of a deterministic Lotka-Volterra system. We study long-time behaviour of both trajectories and distributions of the solutions. We indicate the differences between the deterministic and stochastic models.     

Global stability in a class of prey-predator models

Global stability is established in a class of prey-predator models. This includes a prey-predator model in which the predator has Type 2 functional response and no intraspecific interactions. Two simple examples demonstrate that Kolmogoroff’s theorem does not apply to some members of this class of models.     

Three-species ecosystems in a solvable model

A detailed discussion of the three-species ecosystems is presented in an exactly solvable model with interactions of the Gompertz form. Three different possibilities, namely, a one-prey-two-predator system, a two-prey-one-predator system and a three-step prey-predator food chain are considered. These systems are studied not only when they include their basic prey-predator interactions, but also when various self-interactions as well as competition between like species, in different possible combinations, are included. It is then inferred, by obtaining and examining the exact solutions, as to when these systems possess stable equilibrium and when not, or when they are purely oscillatory, etc. We also study, within our model, the two-species versus three-species situation. It is seen that there are situations when the three-species system possesses stable equilibrium even under circumstances under which the corresponding two-species system is unstable. We also come across cases when the addition of the third species destroys the possibility of stable equilibrium which the initial two-species system possessed. Some other results also follow. Of particular interest is the one where the initial two-species system is purely oscillatory but the enlarged system, which is a three-step prey-predator chain, has the first and the last populations of the chain rising indefinitely and the middle population remains oscillatory. A comparison of our results with results of other authors, wherever possible, has also been made.     

种群Lotka-Volterra捕食系统多个极限环的存在性

通过降维把高维系统平衡点的稳定必及根限环的构造用低维系统来判定和实现,给出了一个三种群Lotka-Volterra捕食系统具有两个小扰动极限环的例子。     

Volterra-Verhulst prey-predator systems with time dependent coefficients: Diffusion type approximation and periodic solutions

In treating the Volterra-Verhulst prey-predator system with time dependent coefficients, we ask how far this deterministic system represents or approximates the dynamics of the population evolving in a realistic environment which is stochastic in nature. We consider a stochastic system withsmall Gaussian noise type fluctuations. It is shown that the higher moments of the deviation of the deterministic system from the stochastic approach zero as the strength δ of the perturbation decays to zero. For any δ>0 and allT>0, ε>0, the sample population paths that stay within ε distance from the deterministic path during [0,T] form a collection of positive probability. In comparing the stationary distributions of the two systems, we show that the weak limits of those of the stochastic system form a subset of those of the deterministic system. This is in analogy with a result of May connected with the stability of the two systems. Plant and rodent populations possess periodic parameters andexhibit periodic behaivor. We establish theoretically this periodicity under periodicity conditions on the coefficients and perturbing random forces. We also establish a central limit property for the prey-predator system.     

Complexity in a prey-predator model with prey refuge and diffusion

Prey-predator interaction is one of the most commonly observed relationships in ecosystem. In the study of prey-predator models, it is frequently assumed that the changes in population densities are only time-dependent and the dynamics is generally represented by coupled nonlinear ordinary differential equations. In natural system, however, either prey or predator or both move from one place to another for various reasons. In such a case, their dynamic interaction depends both on time and space and requires coupled nonlinear partial differential equations for its dynamic representation. It is also well documented that prey refuges affect the interaction between prey and predator significantly. In this paper, we studied the dynamics of a diffusive prey-predator interaction with prey refuge and type III response function. We have considered both one and two dimensional diffusivity in the model system and presented different stability results under the assumptions that one or both species may be mobile or sedentary. Our results showed that the system may exhibit different spatiotemporal (non-Turing) patterns, like spiral waves, patchy structures, spot pattern, or even spatiotemporal chaos depending on the refuge availability and diffusion rate of species. Another interesting finding was that the dynamic complexity in a prey-predator model increases in case of mobile predator and sedentary prey compare to mobile prey and sedentary predator while refuge availability is varied.     

Stability and Hopf bifurcation for a prey-predator model with prey-stage structure and diffusion

In this paper, we first propose a prey-predator model with prey-stage structure and diffusion. Then we discuss the following three problems: (1) stability of non-negative constant steady states for the reduced ODE system and the corresponding reaction diffusion system with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions; (2) Hopf bifurcation for the ODE system; (3) Hopf bifurcation created by diffusion.     

Persistence and Periodic Solution for Diffusive Preypredator System with Functional Response

1IntroductionThesurvivalofspeciesisoneofthemostinterestingqllestionsinmathematicalbiology.Persistenceisanimportantconcepttodealwiththisproblem.Recently,manyauthorsfindthatthediffusionprocessinecologicalsystemplaysanimportantrole.Therearemanyliteraturestoinvestigatethedynamicswithdiffusionprocess,butfewerliteraturetoinvestigatethedynamicswithbothdiffusionprocessandfunctionalresponse.Inthispaper,theauthorswillbedevotetostudythethreespeciesdiffosiveprey-predatorsystemwithfunctionalresponseasfoll…     

Global Stability of a System of Two Interacting Species with Convective and Dispersive Migration

Using Liapunov's direct method, effects of convective and dispersive migration on the global stability of the equilibrium state of a system of two interacting species are investigated. It is shown that the stable equilibrium state without dispersal remains so with dispersal. Further, it is pointed out that stability or instability of the equilibrium state of the system is not affected by convective migration. These results are justified in cases of a system of mutualistic interactions of species and a prey-predator system with functional response.     

具性别偏食的二种群捕食者-食饵系统模型

本文根据生态学实验现象研究了一类二种群捕食者－食饵系统,其中捕食者对食饵有性别偏食情形。建立了相应的数学模型,并对该模型的有关性状进行了分析。     

Impact of fear effect on the growth of prey in a predator-prey interaction model

Several field data and experiments on a terrestrial vertebrates exhibited that the fear of predators would cause a substantial variability of prey demography. Fear for predator population enhances the survival probability of prey population, and it can greatly reduce the reproduction of prey population. Based on the experimental evidence, we proposed and analyzed a prey-predator system introducing the cost of fear into prey reproduction with Holling type-II functional response. We investigate all the biologically feasible equilibrium points, and their stability is analyzed in terms of the model parameters. Our mathematical analysis exhibits that for strong anti-predator responses can stabilize the prey-predator interactions by ignoring the existence of periodic behaviors. Our model system undergoes Hopf bifurcation by considering the birth rate r₀ as a bifurcation parameter. For larger prey birth rate, we investigate the transition to a stable coexisting equilibrium state, with oscillatory approach to this equilibrium state, indicating that the greatest characteristic eigenvalues are actually a pair of imaginary eigenvalues with real part negative, which is increasing for r₀. We obtained the conditions for the occurrence of Hopf bifurcation and conditions governing the direction of Hopf bifurcation, which imply that the prey birth rate will not only influence the occurrence of Hopf bifurcation but also alter the direction of Hopf bifurcation. We identify the parameter regions associated with the extinct equilibria, predator-free equilibria and coexisting equilibria with respect to prey birth rate, predator mortality rates. Fear can stabilize the predator-prey system at an interior steady state, where all the species can exists together, or it can create the oscillatory coexistence of all the populations. We performed some numerical simulations to investigate the relationship between the effects of fear and other biologically related parameters (including growth/decay rate of prey/predator), which exhibit the impact that fear can have in prey-predator system. Our numerical illustrations also demonstrate that the prey become less sensitive to perceive the risk of predation with increasing prey growth rate or increasing predators decay rate.     

具有比率依赖型功能反应函数的食饵-捕食者征税模型分析

本文研究了一个具有功能反应函数的食饵一捕食者征税模型,得到了该系统正平衡点的存在性、局部渐近稳定性和全局渐近稳定性的条件,并利用Pontrjagin最大值原理得到了最优税收策略．该文为资源管理者制定合理的管理政策提供理论依据．     

Random ecological systems with structure: Stability-complexity relationship

We have numerically examined more than one million Large Complex Systems (LCS) of interacting variables (interpretable as interacting populations) governed by Generalized Lotka-Volterra Equations (GLV), with self-regulation term. The scope was to have some insight on the stability-complexity relationship. We considered systems of prey-predator type, and we gave appropriate rules for constructing the model systems, rules that specify the behaviour of model systems in order to put them near the biological reality. The results show, among other things, a strict correlation between the stability and the prey-predator ratio (which, in our model, uniquely determines the connectedness of the system).     

具有捕食正效应的捕食-食饵系统

在经典的捕食食饵系统中考虑到由于捕食效应对食饵种群带来的正向调节作用后,提出了具有捕食正效应的捕食-食饵系统.通过对模型的动力学行为的分析,从理论上说明了正向调节作用对系统的影响,并就第一象限内平衡点存在时的相图解释了捕食正效应的作用.结果表明:(1)捕食系统中适当的正向调节作用会增加系统的稳定性;(2)当捕食正效应达到一定的程度后系统拥有一个不稳定的极限环;(3)当捕食正效应过大时会使系统的稳定性发生变化,使捕食者种群与食饵种群同时趋向无穷,出现了调节放纵现象.这些结果在保护生物学中具有重要的意义.     

具有庇护所的三种群捕食者-食饵模型

讨论了一类具有庇护所的自治三种群捕食者一食饵模型,运用Liapunov函数方法,得到了该模型持久性的充分条件．对于该模型的周期系统,在一定的条件下,将产生唯一一个全局渐近稳定的周期正解．对更具普遍意义的概周期现象,也得出了概周期正解唯一存在且全局渐近稳定性的充分条件．     

一类具连续时滞的捕食-被捕食生态系统

本文讨论了一类具有强连续时滞的捕食-被捕食模型,分析了各非负平衡点的稳定性,利用区域连续收缩方法,得出非负平衡点全局稳定的充分条件,给出正平衡点全局稳定的充分条件,并给出系统出现Hopf的分支值．     

一类被开发的HollingⅢ类功能反应模型的定性分析

本文研究了一类捕食种群、食饵种群同时具有收获率的HollingⅢ类功能反应生态系统,其中食饵种群具有非线性密度制约,捕食者无密度制约.应用微分方程定性理论讨论了系统的平衡点,分析了中心焦点的阶数以及稳定性,所给定参数满足一定条件时系统不存在极限环,最后根据细焦点的稳定性判断出极限环的存在性,并验证了极限环的惟一性.     

广义Lotke-Volterra生态模型的非线性奇摄动近似解

非线性奇摄动问题在国际学术界中是一个重要的研究对象。它涉及到许多学科。在一些生态现象中,原始的研究方法只是采取某些简单观察和统计数据来得到结论。但是它对生态现象的实质的研究达不到效果。近来在国际上提出了研究生态学的动力学方法,即人们首先把它归化为代表它的现象本质的微分方程的模型,然后用数学方法来求解对应的方程,最后研究关于生物和数学理论的动力学方面的规律。目前,非线性摄动问题已经被广泛地研究。许多学者已经研究了一些近似理论。近似求解方法已被发展,包括平均法,边界层法,匹配渐近展开和多尺度法等等。研究非线性广义Lotke-Volterra捕食-被捕食生态模型,一个简单而有效的摄动方法被应用到捕食-被捕食生态模型。提出了捕食-被捕食的一个模型,它是一个微分方程系统,并用小的正参数按幂级数展开未知函数,然后得到关于幂级数的系数的方程,并求出它们的解。于是利用摄动方法得到了原问题解的渐近展开式。得到了它是原模型解是一个好的近似的结论,它是一个解析展开式并且能保持其解析运算。最后,给出了一个对应的例子,它说明得到的解具有很好的精度。     

Application of perturbation theory to the nonlinear Volterra-Gause-Witt model for prey-predator interaction

Krylov-Bogoliubov-Mitropolsky perturbation method was used to study the effect of nonlinearity in the Volterra-gause-Witt (VGW) model for a two species prey-predator system. The first order corrections to both the frequency of oscillation and the amplitude of the linearized system were computed. It was found that the basic qualitative features of the nonlinearity are exhibited by the first order result. We have also discussed the Lotka-Volterra problem which is a special case of VGW model.     

含有食饵自庇护的食饵-捕食模型的模糊滑模控制

针对一类令布食饵自虞护的食饵-捕食系统,当环境变化时,系统参数的扰动处于动态状态,利用其扰动边界的特性,通过设计模糊滑模控制器将失控系统引至平稳轨道,并使系统全局稳定,从理论上实现了失控系统的有效控制,为防治食饵种群灭绝,引起食物链断裂,导致生态平衡破坏提供了一定的理论依据．最后的仿真结果表明了此方法在理论上的有效性．