Permanence criteria in non-autonomous predator–prey Kolmogorov systems and its applications (Q3155192)

The authors study the permanence of positive solutions for general two-dimensional predator-prey Kolmogorov systems. They begin by studying the 1-dimensional system \(du/dt=ug(t,u,r)\) where \(r\) is a nonnegative parameter. Assuming that \(g(t,u,r)\) satisfies some weak and ecologically reasonable conditions, they obtain sufficient conditions for the global uniform attractivity of the positive solution of the system \(du/dt=ug(t,u,0)\). They apply their results to linear and logistic systems, respectively. Then they study the two-dimensional predator-prey Kolmogorov systems \[ dx/dt=xf(t,x,y), dy/dt=yg(t,x,y). \] They obtain sufficient conditions for the permanence of this system. They also derive sufficient conditions for its ultimate boundedness. Some applications are given which include nonautonomous Lotka-Volterra, Holling-type \((m,n)\), Bedding-De-Angelis, Leslie Gower and chemostat systems. In the reviewer's opinion, a main advantage of this paper is that its assumptions and conditions are ecologically reasonable and simply to verify.