Mathematical analysis of an eco-epidemiological predator-prey model with stage-structure and latency (Q721550)

The authors study a delayed eco-epidemiological predator-prey model with stage structure for the prey. In this model, they consider the time delay parameter as the latent period of the disease. The main assumptions are: 1. The division of a population into immature and mature individuals (prey), 2. The division of a population into susceptible, infected and recovered (predator). Then, the dynamical behavior of this model is investigated by using the stability and bifurcation theory. First, they get the upper bound of positive solutions of the model (Lemma 2.1, 2.2). In Theorem 3.1 and Corollary 3.1, they use the Routh-Hurwitz criterion to obtain the stability region of equilibria ( trivial equilibrium, predator-extinction equilibrium, disease-free equilibrium, endemic-coexistence equilibrium). Theorem 3.2 provides conditions for Hopf bifurcation where the time delay parameter is the bifurcation parameter. In Section 4, global stability of equilibria is established by means of Lyapunov functions and LaSalle's invariance principle.