Bifurcation and Stability Analysis of a Food Web in a Chemostat
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Abstract
In this study, a classical model describing a food web in a chemostat involving three species competing for non-reproducing, growth rate-limiting nutrient in which one of the competitors predates on one of the other competitors is considered. Quantitative analyses of non-negativity and boundedness of solution trajectories, dissipativity, behavior around equilibria, global stability and persistence of the model equations are analyzed. We present the global stability of equilibria by constructing a Lyapunov function. Hopf bifurcation theory is applied.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/jmssp.2016.213.224
Copyright: © 2016 S.M. Sohel Rana. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Chemostat
- Food Web
- Global Stability
- Hopf Bifurcation
- Dissipative