Permanence, extinction and balancing survival in nonautonomous Lotka-Volterra system with delays. (Q1855713)

The main results of this paper are devoted to derive sufficient conditions for permanence, extinction and balancing survival of an \(n\)-species Lotka-Volterra competition system with periodic time delays. It is shown that the obtained results improve and extend previous results in the literature. One of the conclusions is that, under certain conditions, time delays do not affect the permanence and extinction in the system. A related conjecture is stated.