Permanence and stability of a stage-structured predator-prey model (Q5953084)

This is a well written and timely paper that provides a nice qualitative analysis of a delayed Holling-type II ratio-dependent predator-prey model. The time delay (maturation time) is carefully introduced and it is shown that for small delay, the system is globally stable, if a positive steady state exists. The method makes use of fluctuation lemma and Lyapunov functional arguments. However, the local stability section may not completely true since it uses a standard theorem that guaranteed to work only for systems with delay independent parameters. To be rigorous, the authors need to use the recently established results by \textit{E. Beretta} and \textit{Y. Kuang} [SIAM J. Math. Anal. 33, No. 5, 1144-1165 (2002; Zbl 1013.92034)].