In an environment,the food chains are balanced by the prey-predator interactions.When a predator species is provided with more than one prey population,it avails the option of prey switching between prey species accor...In an environment,the food chains are balanced by the prey-predator interactions.When a predator species is provided with more than one prey population,it avails the option of prey switching between prey species according to their availability.So,prey switching of predators mainly helps to increase the overall growth rate of a predator species.In this work,we have proposed a two prey-one predator system where the predator population adopts switching behavior between two prey species at the time of consumption.Both the prey population exhibit a strong Allee effect and the predator population is considered to be a generalist one.The proposed system is biologically well-defined as the system variables are positive and do not increase abruptly with time.The local stability analysis reveals that all the predator-free equilibria are saddle points whereas the prey-free equilibrium is always stable.The intrinsic growth rates of prey,the strong Allee parameters,and the prey refuge parameters are chosen to be the controlling parameters here.The numerical simulation reveals that in absence of one prey,the other prey refuge parameter can change the system dynamics by forming a stable or unstable limit cycle.Moreover,a situation of bi-stability,tri-stability,or even multi-stability of equilibrium points occurs in this system.As in presence of the switching effect,the predator chooses prey according to their abundance,so,increasing refuge in one prey population decreases the count of the second prey population.It is also observed that the count of predator population reaches a comparatively higher value even if they get one prey population at its fullest quantity and only a portion of other prey species.So,in the scarcity of one prey species,switching to the other prey is beneficial for the growth of the predator population.展开更多
We propose and study a discrete host-parasitoid model of difference equations with a spatial host refuge where hosts in the refuge patch are free from parasitism but undergo a demographic strong Allee effect.If the gr...We propose and study a discrete host-parasitoid model of difference equations with a spatial host refuge where hosts in the refuge patch are free from parasitism but undergo a demographic strong Allee effect.If the growth rate of hosts in the non-refuge patch is less than one,a host Allee threshold is derived below which both populations become extinct.It is proven that both populations can persist indefinitely if the host growth rate in the non-refuge patch exceeds one and the maximum reproductive number of parasitoids is greater than one.Numerical simulations reveal that the host refuge can either stabilize or destabilize the host-parasitoid interactions,depending on other model parameters.A large number of parasitoid turnover from a parasitized host may be detrimental to the parasitoids due to Allee effects in the hosts within the refuge patch.Moreover,it is demonstrated numerically that if the host growth rate is not small,the population level of parasitoids may suddenly drop to a small value as some parameters are varied.展开更多
文摘In an environment,the food chains are balanced by the prey-predator interactions.When a predator species is provided with more than one prey population,it avails the option of prey switching between prey species according to their availability.So,prey switching of predators mainly helps to increase the overall growth rate of a predator species.In this work,we have proposed a two prey-one predator system where the predator population adopts switching behavior between two prey species at the time of consumption.Both the prey population exhibit a strong Allee effect and the predator population is considered to be a generalist one.The proposed system is biologically well-defined as the system variables are positive and do not increase abruptly with time.The local stability analysis reveals that all the predator-free equilibria are saddle points whereas the prey-free equilibrium is always stable.The intrinsic growth rates of prey,the strong Allee parameters,and the prey refuge parameters are chosen to be the controlling parameters here.The numerical simulation reveals that in absence of one prey,the other prey refuge parameter can change the system dynamics by forming a stable or unstable limit cycle.Moreover,a situation of bi-stability,tri-stability,or even multi-stability of equilibrium points occurs in this system.As in presence of the switching effect,the predator chooses prey according to their abundance,so,increasing refuge in one prey population decreases the count of the second prey population.It is also observed that the count of predator population reaches a comparatively higher value even if they get one prey population at its fullest quantity and only a portion of other prey species.So,in the scarcity of one prey species,switching to the other prey is beneficial for the growth of the predator population.
文摘We propose and study a discrete host-parasitoid model of difference equations with a spatial host refuge where hosts in the refuge patch are free from parasitism but undergo a demographic strong Allee effect.If the growth rate of hosts in the non-refuge patch is less than one,a host Allee threshold is derived below which both populations become extinct.It is proven that both populations can persist indefinitely if the host growth rate in the non-refuge patch exceeds one and the maximum reproductive number of parasitoids is greater than one.Numerical simulations reveal that the host refuge can either stabilize or destabilize the host-parasitoid interactions,depending on other model parameters.A large number of parasitoid turnover from a parasitized host may be detrimental to the parasitoids due to Allee effects in the hosts within the refuge patch.Moreover,it is demonstrated numerically that if the host growth rate is not small,the population level of parasitoids may suddenly drop to a small value as some parameters are varied.
