Analysis of a model of two parallel food chains

DOI10.3934/DCDSB.2009.12.337MaRDI QIDQ841336zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sze-Bi Hsu, Christopher A. Klausmeier, Chiu-Ju Lin

Publication date 16 September 2009

Published in Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.3934/dcdsb.2009.12.337

zbMATH Keywords

chaoschemostatfood chainsheteroclinic orbitslimit cycles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological structure of integral curves, singular points, limit cycles of ordinary differential equations (34C05) Complex behavior and chaotic systems of ordinary differential equations (34C28) Homoclinic and heteroclinic solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C37) Qualitative investigation and simulation of ordinary differential equation models (34C60) Asymptotic properties of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34D05) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

Review text

A mathematical model of two parallel food chains in a chemostat is investigated. Each food chain consists of a prey species \(x\) and a predator species \(y\). Two food chains are symmetric in the sense that the prey species are identical and so are the specialized predator species. Both of the prey species in the parallel food chains share the same nutrient \(R\). The authors show that as the input concentration \(R^{(0)}\) of the nutrient varies, there are several possible outcomes: (1) all species go extinct; (2) only the two prey species survive; (3) all species coexist at equilibrium; (4) all species coexist in the form of oscillations. The authors analyze cases (1)-(3) rigorously; for case (4), the authors do extensive numerical studies to present all possible phenomena, which include limit cycles, heteroclinic cycles, and chaos.

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