Resilience analysis for competing populations

DOI10.1101/578609MaRDI QIDQ2008247zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Artur César Fassoni, Denis Carvalho Braga

Publication date 22 November 2019

Published in Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.06291

zbMATH Keywords

basins of attractionbiological invasionsecological resilienceinvariant manifoldsnonlinear dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ecology (92D40)

Abstract: Ecological resilience refers to the ability of a system to retain its state when subject to state variables perturbations or parameter changes. While understanding and quantifying resilience is crucial to anticipate the possible regime shifts, characterizing the influence of the system parameters on resilience is the first step towards controlling the system to avoid undesirable critical transitions. In this paper, we apply tools of qualitative theory of differential equations to study the resilience of competing populations as modeled by the classical Lotka-Volterra system. Within the high interspecific competition regime, such model exhibits bistability, and the boundary between the basins of attraction corresponding to exclusive survival of each population is the stable manifold of a saddle-point. Studying such manifold and its behavior in terms of the model parameters, we characterized the populations resilience: while increasing competitiveness leads to higher resilience, it is not always the case with respect to reproduction. Within a pioneering context where both populations initiate with few individuals, increasing reproduction leads to an increase in resilience; however, within an environment previously dominated by one population and then invaded by the other, an increase in resilience is obtained by decreasing the reproduction rate. Besides providing interesting insights for the dynamics of competing population, this work brings near to each other the theoretical concepts of ecological resilience and the mathematical methods of differential equations and stimulates the development and application of new mathematical tools for ecological resilience.

Review text

The term ecological resilience means the ability of a system to retain its state when subject to state variables perturbations. The authors consider a competing population model as modeled by the classical Lotka-Volterra system. The bistable scenario is in the context of high interspecific competition in which one population is considered as native and the other as invader. The techniques of the qualitative theory of differential equations are applied to study the resilience of the considered model. The method characterizes analytically an invariant manifold of a saddle point as the graph of a smooth function. It characterizes its behavior in terms of the model parameters. The authors give results which provide a way to quantify two resilience measures, the precariousness and the latitude, for the native population. One interesting aspect of the result is to show how adaptations on the native population behavior may protect it against the invasion of a second population. The paper is quite interesting and gives interesting insights of the considered model.

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