Population dynamics of systems with consumers that maintain a constant ratio of intake rates of two resources

DOI10.1016/0040-5809(89)90010-5zbMath0662.92023OpenAlexW1965417053MaRDI QIDQ1114629

Peter A. Abrams, Lester Shen

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Theoretical Population Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-5809(89)90010-5

zbMATH Keywords

limit cycleattractoroptimal exploitationtime lagsconsumer-resource modelsthree equilibriacapture ratesconstant ratio of intake ratesconsumer death ratesconsumer population sizeindividual fitnesslogistically growing resourcesnonsubstitutable resourcesnutritionally complementary resourcesresource growth functionsself- reproducing resourcessingle stable equilibriumsingle unstable equilibriumsingle-consumer modelstwo-consumer populations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological structure of integral curves, singular points, limit cycles of ordinary differential equations (34C05) Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Ecology (92D40) Stability theory for ordinary differential equations (34D99)

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