Global dynamics of a predator-prey model with Hassell-Varley type functional response (Q950571)

The authors present a systematic global qualitative analysis to a general predator-prey model with Hassell-Varley type functional response. The authors show that the predator free equilibrium is a global attractor only when the predator death rate is greater than its growth ability. The positive equilibrium exists if the above relation reverses. In cases of practical interest, authors show that the local stability of the positive steady state implies its global stability with respect to positive solutions. For terrestrial predators that form a fixed number of tight groups, authors show that the existence of an unstable positive equilibrium in the predator-prey model implies the existence of an unique nontrivial positive limit cycle.