Analysis of a Lotka–Volterra food chain chemostat with converting time delays

A model of the food chain chemostat involving predator, prey and growth-limiting nutrients is considered. The model incorporates two discrete time delays in order to describe the time involved in converting processes. The Lotka–Volterra type increasing functions are used to describe the species uptakes. In addition to showing that solutions with positive initial conditions are positive and bounded, we establish sufficient conditions for the (i) local stability and instability of the positive equilibrium and (ii) global stability of the non-negative equilibria. Numerical simulation suggests that the delays have both destabilizing and stabilizing effects, and the system can produce stable periodic solutions, quasi-periodic solutions and strange attractors.     

LOCAL AND GLOBAL HOPF BIFURCATIONS FOR A PREDATOR-PREY SYSTEM WITH TWO DELAYS

In this paper, the Leslie predator-prey system with two delays is studied. The stability of the positive equilibrium is discussed by analyzing the associated characteristic transcendental equation. The direction and stability of the bifurcating periodic solutions are determined by applying the center manifold theorem and normal form theory. The conditions to guarantee the global existence of periodic solutions are given.     

Asymptotic behavior of solutions of a periodic diffusion system of plankton allelopathy

This paper is concerned with the existence and asymptotic behavior of periodic solutions for a periodic reaction diffusion system of a planktonic competition model under Dirichlet boundary conditions. The approach to the problem is by the method of upper and lower solutions and the bootstrap argument of Ahmad and Lazer. It is shown under certain conditions that this system has positive or semi-positive periodic solutions. A sufficient condition is obtained to ensure the stability and global attractivity of positive periodic solutions.     

Existence and stability of periodic solutions for competing species diffusion systems with dirichlet boundary conditions

The article considers positive t-periodic solutions for a periodic system of competing-species diffusion-reaction equations with zero or positive Dirichlet boundary conditions. The asymptotic orbital stability of the periodic solution is also investigated. Some results are applicable to cases when interspecies interactions are not small     

Existence and Stability of Positive Solutions for an Elliptic Cooperative System

By discussing the properties of a linear cooperative system, the necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of positive solutions of an elliptic cooperative system in terms of the principal eigenvalue of the associated linear system are established, and some local stability results for the positive solutions are also obtained.     

Coexistence and Asymptotic Periodicity in a Competition Model of Plankton Allelopathy

In this paper, the two species Lotka-Volterra competition model of plankton allelopathy from aquatic ecology is discussed. The authors study the existence of solutions to a strongly coupled elliptic system with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions and consider the existence, stability and global attractivity of time-periodic solutions for a coupled parabolic equations in a bounded domain. Their results show that this model possesses at least one coexistence state if cross-diffusions and self-diffusions are weak. The existence of the positive T-periodic solutions and the global stability as well as the global attractivity for the parabolic system are also given.     

A microbial continuous culture system with diffusion and diversified growth

A reaction-diffusion model is presented to describe the microbial continuous culture with diversified growth. The existence of nonnegative solutions and attractors for the system is obtained, the stability of steady states and the steady state bifurcation are studied under three growth conditions. In the case of no growth inhibition or only product inhibition, the system admits one positive constant steady state which is stable; in the case of growth inhibition only by substrate, the system can have two positive constant steady states, explicit conditions of the stability and the steady state bifurcation are also determined. In addition, numerical simulations are given to exhibit the theoretical results.     

Persistence and global stability of positive periodic solutions of three species food chains with omnivory

In this paper, we investigate the existence and global stability of the positive periodic solutions of delayed discrete food chains with omnivory. With the help of continuation theorem in coincidence degree theory and Lyapunov functions, some sufficient conditions are obtained. The results show that, for such a system with omnivory, more conditions are required for the persistence of the positive periodic solutions than that of a linear food chain. On the other hand, omnivory makes no differences on the stability of the solutions.     

Global Qualitative Analysis for a Ratio-Dependent Predator-Prey Model with Delay

A ratio-dependent predator-prey model with time lag for predator is proposed and analyzed. Mathematical analyses of the model equations with regard to boundedness of solutions, nature of equilibria, permanence, and stability are analyzed. We note that for a ratio-dependent system local asymptotic stability of the positive steady state does not even guarantee the so-called persistence of the system and, therefore, does not imply global asymptotic stability. It is found that an orbitally asymptotically stable periodic orbit exists in that model. Some sufficient conditions which guarantee the global stability of positive equilibrium are given.     

Qualitative analysis for a ratio-dependent predator-prey model with disease and diffusion

This paper is purported to study a reaction diffusion system arising from a ratio-dependent predator-prey model with disease. We study the dynamical behavior of the predator-prey system. The conditions for the permanent and existence of steady states and their stability are established. We can obtain the bounds for positive steady state of the corresponding elliptic system. The non-existence results of non-constant positive solutions are derived.     

GLOBAL ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY IN N-SPECIES NONAUTONOMOUS LOTKA-VOLTERRACOMPETITIVE SYSTEMS WITH DELAYS

A delayed n-species nonautonomous Lotka-Volterra type competitive system without dominating instantaneous negative feedback is investigated. By means of a suitable Lyapunov functional, sufficient conditions are derived for the global asymptotic stability of the positive solutions of the system. As a corollary, it is shown that the global asymptotic stability of the positive solution is maintained provided that the delayed negative feedbacks dominate other interspecific interaction effects with delays and the delays are sufficiently small.     

Bifurcation behaviours in a delayed three-species food-chain model with Holling type-II functional response

This article is concerned with the local stability of a positive equilibrium and the Hopf bifurcation of a delayed three-species food-chain system with the Holling type-II functional response. Some new sufficient conditions ensuring the local stability of a positive equilibrium and the existence of Hopf bifurcation for the system are established. Some explicit formulae are derived to determine the direction of bifurcations and the stability of bifurcating periodic solutions using the normal form theory and the centre manifold theory. Numerical simulations for justifying the theoretical analysis are also provided. Finally, biological explanations and main conclusions are included.     

一类具有阶段结构的非自治捕食-食饵系统的持久性与周期解

研究了一类具有阶段结构的非自治的捕食-食饵系统的渐近性质,得到了在适当条件下该系统的持久性,对应周期系统正周期解的存在性、唯一性以及全局渐近稳定性.     

Global dynamics of Nicholson-type delay systems with applications

Models of marine protected areas and B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia dynamics that belong to the Nicholson-type delay differential systems are proposed. To study the global stability of the Nicholson-type models we construct an exponentially stable linear system such that its solution is a solution of the nonlinear model. Explicit conditions of the existence of positive global solutions, lower and upper estimations of solutions, and the existence and uniqueness of a positive equilibrium were obtained. New results, obtained for the global stability and instability of equilibria solutions, extend known results for the scalar Nicholson models. The conditions for the stability test are quite practical, and the methods developed are applicable to the modeling of a broad spectrum of biological processes. To illustrate our finding, we study the dynamics of the fish populations in Marine Protected Areas.     

Asymptotic stability of positive equilibrium solution for a delayed prey–predator diffusion system

This article is concerned with a delayed Lotka–Volterra two-species prey–predator diffusion system with a single discrete delay and homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. By applying the implicit function theorem, the asymptotic expressions of positive equilibrium solutions are obtained. And then, the asymptotic stability of positive equilibrium solutions is investigated by linearizing the system at the positive equilibrium solutions and analyzing the associated eigenvalue problem. It is demonstrated that the positive equilibrium solutions are asymptotically stable when the delay is less than a certain critical value and unstable when the delay is greater than this critical value. In addition, it is also found that the system under consideration can undergo a Hopf bifurcation when the delay crosses through a sequence of critical values. Finally, to verify our theoretical predictions, some numerical simulations are also included.     

Permanence and stability of a predator–prey system with stage structure for predator

A stage-structured predator–prey system with delays for prey and predator, respectively, is proposed and analyzed. Mathematical analysis of the model equations with regard to boundedness of solutions, permanence and stability are analyzed. Some sufficient conditions which guarantee the permanence of the system and the global asymptotic stability of the boundary and positive equilibrium, respectively, are obtained.     

Positive solutions for ratio-dependent predator-prey interaction systems

In this paper, we study the dynamics of predator-prey interaction systems between two species with ratio-dependent functional responses. First we provide sufficient and necessary conditions for positive steady-state solutions, and then we investigate the relationships between positive equilibria and positive solutions of the system over a large domain. Furthermore, we deal with the uniqueness and the stability of positive steady-states solutions with some assumptions. In addition, we discuss the extinction and the persistence results of time-dependent positive solutions to the system.     

Globally asymptotical stability and periodicity for a nonautonomous two-species system with diffusion and impulses

Existence and globally asymptotical stability of positive periodic solutions for a nonautonomous two-species competition system with diffusion and impulses are studied in this paper. By employing Mawhin continuation theorem, a set of easily verifiable sufficient conditions are obtained for the existence of at least one positive periodic solution, and by means of a suitable Lyapunov functional, the globally asymptotical stability of positive periodic solution is presented. Finally, an illustrative example and simulations are given to show the effectiveness of the main results.     

具有阶段结构且食饵有避难所的模型分析

研究了捕食者具有阶段结构且食饵有避难所的非自治捕食系统.利用Lyapunov函数方法得到了系统持续生存的条件,以及在一定条件下存在唯一全局渐进稳定的周期正解.对于更广泛的概周期现象,也得到了存在唯一全局渐进稳定的概周期正解的充分条件.     

Lyapunov exponent of a stochastic SIRS model

We consider a SIRS (susceptible–infected–removed–susceptible) model influenced by random perturbations. We prove that the solutions are positive for positive initial conditions and are global, that is, there is no finite explosion time. We present necessary and sufficient conditions for the almost sure asymptotic stability of the steady state of the stochastic system.