Stability of discrete one-dimensional population models (Q1099108)

We give conditions for local and global stability of discrete one- dimensional population models. We give a new test for local stability when the derivative is -1. We give several sufficient conditions for global stability. We use these conditions to show that local and global stability coincide for the usual models from the literature and even for slightly more complicated models. We give population models, which are in some sense the simplest models, for which local and global stability do not coincide.