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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 271, Issue 1546, Pages 1407-1414Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2733
Keywords
Allee effect; predator-prey system; patchiness; chaos; period locking
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It is known from many theoretical studies that ecological chaos may have numerous significant impacts on the population and community dynamics. Therefore, identification of the factors potentially enhancing or suppressing chaos is a challenging problem. In this paper, we show that chaos can be enhanced by the Allee effect. More specifically, we show by means of computer simulations that in a time-continuous predator-prey system with the Allee effect the temporal population oscillations can become chaotic even when the spatial distribution of the species remains regular. By contrast, in a similar system without the Allee effect, regular species distribution corresponds to periodic/quasi-periodic oscillations. We investigate the routes to chaos and show that in the spatially regular predator-prey system with the Allee effect, chaos appears as a result of series of period-doubling bifurcations. We also show that this system exhibits period-locking behaviour: a small variation of parameters can lead to alternating regular and chaotic dynamics.
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