A stability analysis of the power-law steady state of marine size spectra

DOI10.1007/S00285-010-0387-ZzbMATH Open1311.92185arXiv1001.3826OpenAlexW2009499874WikidataQ47400740 ScholiaQ47400740MaRDI QIDQ659044FDOQ659044

Authors: Samik Datta, G. W. Delius, Richard Law, M. J. Plank 

Publication date: 9 February 2012

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

Abstract: This paper investigates the stability of the power-law steady state often observed in marine ecosystems. Three dynamical systems are considered, describing the abundance of organisms as a function of body mass and time: a "jump-growth" equation, a first order approximation which is the widely used McKendrick-von Foerster equation, and a second order approximation which is the McKendrick-von Foerster equation with a diffusion term. All of these yield a power-law steady state. We derive, for the first time, the eigenvalue spectrum for the linearised evolution operator, under certain constraints on the parameters. This provides new knowledge of the stability properties of the power-law steady state. It is shown analytically that the steady state of the McKendrick-von Foerster equation without the diffusion term is always unstable. Furthermore, numerical plots show that eigenvalue spectra of the McKendrick-von Foerster equation with diffusion give a good approximation to those of the jump-growth equation. The steady state is more likely to be stable with a low preferred predator : prey mass ratio, a large diet breadth and a high feeding efficiency.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.3826

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zbMATH Keywords

eigenvaluesstabilitypredator-preymarine ecosystemgrowth diffusionMcKendrick-von Foerster equationsize-spectrum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Ecology (92D40)

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