Effect of parity on productivity and sustainability of Lotka-Volterra food chains

DOI10.1007/S00285-013-0746-7MaRDI QIDQ476811zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Nicole Massarelli, Joseph P. Previte, Kathleen A. Hoffman

Publication date 2 December 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00285-013-0746-7

zbMATH Keywords

bottom-up regulationfood chainsLotka-Volterra predator-prey equationsnumerical examplesteady statesustainabilitytop-down regulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear ordinary differential equations and systems (34A34) Growth and boundedness of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C11) Qualitative investigation and simulation of ordinary differential equation models (34C60) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

Review text

In this paper, the authors consider the following system of ordinary differential equations, which describes a general model for \( n\) interacting species of Lotka-Volterra predation type: \[ \begin{cases} \frac{d x_1}{d t} = x_1(a_1 -b_1 x_2), \\ \frac{d x_2}{d t} = x_2(-a_2 -b_2 x_3 + c_2 x_1), \\ \vdots \\ \frac{d x_j}{d t} = x_j(-a_j -b_j x_{j+1} + c_j x_{j-1}), \\ \vdots \\ \frac{d x_n}{d t} = x_n(-a_n + c_n x_{n-1}), \end{cases}\tag{1} \] where \(a_i, b_i, c_i, 1\leq i\leq n\) are positive real numbers, corresponding, respectively, to the net growth rate of species \(i\), the negative effect of predation on species \(i\) and the positive benefit received by species \(i\) from preying on species \(i-1\). The authors obtain the steady states of the problem (1) and prove that, under suitable conditions, all solutions \((x_1,x_2,\dots,x_n)\) with \(x_i(0)>0, 1\leq i\leq n\) remain bounded and one has \(x_i>0, 1\leq i\leq n.\) Also, they give other conditions for the steady states to take the form: \((x_1,x_2,\dots,x_{j},0,0,\dots,0)\) with \(x_i >0, 1\leq i\leq j\leq n\) and the solutions remain bounded. Furthermore, they illustrated their theoretical results with numerical examples.

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