Joint impact of maturation delay and fear effect on the population dynamics of a predator-prey system (Q6598438)

In this paper, taking into account the maturation period of prey, the authors propose a predator-prey model with time delay and fear effect. They prove the well-posedness of the model system, explore the stability of the equilibria and uniform persistence of the model, and investigate the existence of Hopf bifurcations. Moreover, they also explore the global continuation of the Hopf bifurcation by numerical methods. Interestingly, the obtained results show that as the delay increases, the stable and unstable periodic solutions may both disappear and the unstable positive equilibrium may regain its stability. These results reveal how the maturation delay and the fear effect jointly impact the population dynamics of the predator-prey system, which generalize and compensate the ones in known results.