Pest control may make the pest population explode

DOI10.1007/S00033-003-3210-5MaRDI QIDQ1417469zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hirokazu Ninomiya, Hans F. Weinberger

Publication date 5 January 2004

Published in ZAMP. Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00033-003-3210-5

zbMATH Keywords

Blow-upLinear perturbationPredator-prey model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Growth and boundedness of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C11) Qualitative investigation and simulation of ordinary differential equation models (34C60) Dynamical systems in biology (37N25) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

Review text

Consider the following mathematical model for pest control \[ \dot x= x(1+x(y-1) \exp(-y))-4y,\qquad \dot y= y(x\exp (-y)-4), \] with the initial conditions \(x(0)= a\), \(y(0)= b\), where \(a,b\) are positive constants. It is shown that this model has the property that the population always converges to a unique equilibrium state, but if the death rate of the predator is increased slightly, then there are initial conditions for which the populations of both species blow up in finite time.

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