The effect of seasonal harvesting on stage-structured population models |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Sanyi?TangEmail author Lansun?Chen |
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Institution: | (1) Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK;(2) Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics & System Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100080, P.R. China |
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Abstract: | In most models of population dynamics, increases in population due to birth are assumed to be time-independent, but many species reproduce only during a single period of the year. We propose an exploited single-species model with stage structure for the dynamics in a fish population for which births occur in a single pulse once per time period. Since birth pulse populations are often characterized with a discrete time dynamical system determined by its Poincaré map, we explore the consequences of harvest timing to equilibrium population sizes under seasonal dependence and obtain threshold conditions for their stability, and show that the timing of harvesting has a strong impact on the persistence of the fish population, on the volume of mature fish stock and on the maximum annual-sustainable yield. Moreover, our results imply that the population can sustain much higher harvest rates if the mature fish is removed as early in the season (after the birth pulse) as possible. Further, the effects of harvesting effort and harvest timing on the dynamical complexity are also investigated. Bifurcation diagrams are constructed with the birth rate (or harvesting effort or harvest timing) as the bifurcation parameter, and these are observed to display rich structure, including chaotic bands with periodic windows, pitch-fork and tangent bifurcations, non-unique dynamics (meaning that several attractors coexist) and attractor crisis. This suggests that birth pulse, in effect, provides a natural period or cyclicity that makes the dynamical behavior more complex.This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (10171106) |
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Keywords: | Seasonal harvest Stage-structure Maximum annual-sustainable yield Fish stock Birth pulse |
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