A predator-prey two-sex branching process
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Publication:6328205
arXiv1910.14013MaRDI QIDQ6328205FDOQ6328205
Authors: Cristina Gutiérrez, Carmen Minuesa 
Publication date: 30 October 2019
Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a two-sex controlled branching model to describe the interaction between predator and prey populations with sexual reproduction. This process is a two-type branching process, where the first type corresponds to the predator population and the second one to the prey population. While each population is described via a two-sex branching model, the interaction and survival of both groups is modelled through control functions depending on the current number of individuals of each type in the ecosystem. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the ultimate extinction of both species, the fixation of one of the species and the coexistence of both of them. Moreover, the description of the present predator-prey two-sex branching process on the fixation events can be performed in terms of the behaviour of a one-type two-sex branching process with a random control on the number of individuals, which is also introduced and analysed.
Applications of branching processes (60J85) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80)
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