Dynamic complexities of a food chain model with impulsive perturbations and Beddington-DeAngelis functional response (Q813567)

A 3-trophic level food chain with periodic impulsive perturbations and Beddington-DeAngelis functional response is investigated. Conditions for extinction of the top predator are given. Boundedness and persistence of solutions are studied. The influence of both the impulsive perturbation \(p\) and its period \(T\) is studied numerically. As \(p\) increases (\(T\) fixed), the solution behavior changes from limit cycle via quasi-periodic to periodic. While as \(T\) increases (\(p\) fixed), the solution behavior changes from periodic via a cascade of period doubling bifurcations to chaos.