Persistence and stability in general nonautonomous single-species Kolmogorov systems with delays (Q864219)

The author studies a nonautonomous single species Kolmogorov system with delays of the type \[ \frac{dx(t)}{dt} = x(t)f(t,x_t), \;t \in [0,\infty), \] where \(x_t (s) = x(t+s)\) \(\forall \;s \in [-\tau,0].\) This equation includes many special delayed nonautonomous population growth models of a single species. The results obtained in this paper extend the main results given by \textit{R. R. Vance} and \textit{E. A. Coddington} [J. Math. Biol. 27, 491--506 (1989; Zbl 0716.92016)], establishing in particular different general criteria on the boundedness, persistence, permanence, global asymptotic stability and the existence of positive periodic solutions for the equation above.