Journal
APPLIED MATHEMATICAL MODELLING
Volume 37, Issue 6, Pages 4337-4349Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2012.09.045
Keywords
Predator-prey; Stage-structure; Refuge; Stability; Bifurcation; Persistence
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In this paper, a stage-structured predator prey model is proposed and analyzed to study how the type of refuges used by prey population influences the dynamic behavior of the model. Two types of refuges: those that protect a fixed number of prey and those that protect a constant proportion of prey are considered. Mathematical analyses with regard to positivity, boundedness, equilibria and their stabilities, and bifurcation are carried out. Persistence condition which brings out the useful relationship between prey refuge parameter and maturation time delay is established. Comparing the conclusions obtained from analyzing properties of two types of refuges using by prey, we observe that value of maturation time at which the prey population and hence predator population go extinct is greater in case of refuges which protect a constant proportion of prey. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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