Stability of a stochastic predator-prey system

Authors C. Calvi Parisetti, Sara Pasquali

Publication date 30 November 2001

Published in Rivista di Matematica della Università di Parma. Serie 6 (Search for Journal in Brave)

Lotka-Volterra model stochastic differential equation stochastic predator-prey system stochastic stability

Applications of Brownian motions and diffusion theory (population genetics, absorption problems, etc.) (60J70) Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Stochastic stability in control theory (93E15)

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The authors investigate the stochastic stability of a stochastic version of the Lotka-Volterra predator-prey model. The stochastic model is described by the two-dimensional stochastic differential equation system NEWLINE\[NEWLINE \begin{aligned} dx_t&=[rx_t(1-x_t)-q_0x_ty_t] dt-\sigma x_ty_t dw_t,\\ dy_t&=[cq_0x_ty_t-uy_t] dt-c\sigma x_ty_t dw_t,\end{aligned}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE with a one-dimensional driving Wiener process \(w\). The authors prove that a) the stationary solution \(E_0=(0,0)\) is always unstable; b) the stationary solution \(E_1=(1,0)\) is asymptotically stable if \(0<q_0<T_1:=u/c-c\sigma^2/2\) and unstable if \(q_0>T_2:=u/c+c\sigma^2/2\). Numerical simulations are also performed that allow the authors to conjecture that c)~for \(q_0\in(T_1,T_2)\), the solution is still stable; d)~for \(q_0>T_2\), the solution fluctuates around the deterministic equilibrium \(E^*=({u\over qc},{r\over q}(1-{u\over qc}))\) and has an invariant distribution.

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