Role of harvesting in controlling chaos and disease propagation in predator-prey system with disease in prey (Q2289574)

Summary: The paper explores an eco-epidemiological model with harvesting in the species and the disease is circulating in the prey population. The curiosity of this paper is to consider the role of harvesting on chaotic dynamics. We perform the local and global stability analysis of the equilibrium points and the Hopf bifurcation analysis around the interior equilibrium point. Further, we pay attention to the direction of Hopf bifurcation. Our numerical simulations reveal that the three species eco-epidemiological system shows chaos in low level of infection. It is observed that when force of infection increases, chaos becomes stable. We conclude that chaotic dynamics can be controlled by the harvesting parameter as well as the force of infection. We apply basic tools of non-linear dynamics such as Poincaré section and maximum Lyapunov exponent to identify chaotic behaviour of the system.