Effects of additional foods to predators on nutrient-consumer-predator food chain model (Q355929)

Summary: We have proposed a nutrient-consumer-predator model with additional food to the predator, at variable nutrient enrichment levels. The boundedness property and the conditions for local stability of boundary and interior equilibrium points of the system are derived. Bifurcation analysis is done with respect to the quality and quantity of the additional food and consumer's death rate for the model. The system has stable as well as unstable dynamics depending on the supply of additional food to the predator. This model shows that the supply of additional food plays an important role in the biological controllability of the system.