Dynamic Complexities in a Discrete Predator-prey System

ZHANG Li-min，LI Ling

（Dept. of Math& Finance-economics, Sichuan Univ. of Arts& Science, Dazhou Sichuan 635000, China）

Dynamic Complexities in a Discrete Predator-prey System

ZHANG Li-min，LI Ling

（Dept. of Math& Finance-economics, Sichuan Univ. of Arts& Science, Dazhou Sichuan 635000, China）

In this paper, the dynamic behavior of a discrete predator-prey system proposed in [2] is investigated for further study. Firstly, the conditions of existence for Hopf bifurcation are derived by using bifurcation theory. Secondly, the existence of chaotic behaviors in the sense of Marotto’s definition of chaos in certain conditions is proved. Finally, numerical simulations are conducted not only to verify the validity of the theoretical analysis but also reveal other complex dynamics behaviors such as period-doublings,period-halving bifurcations, attractor crises, quasi-periodicity, chaotic bands and periodic windows.

Hopf bifurcation; Marotto’s chaos; numerical simulation

1 Introduction

About the discrete predator-prey models, one of the early works was done by Beddington et al.[1]. After that, many authors have investigated the discrete predator-prey systems[2-6,10-16]. One important reason is that some species have no overlap between successive generations, thus discrete-time models are more realistic than continuous-time models to study these species. Another reason is that people always study population change by one year (month, week, or day) in practice, thus, it is important and necessary to obtain discrete systems from continuous population dynamical models , by which one studies their dynamical properties[9]. Recently, Zhang[2]proposed the following discrete predator-prey system:

where is the integral step size. The more meaning of system (1) can refer to the reference[2]cited therein. It is shown in [2] that the system generates a flip bifurcation under some conditions.

In this paper, we continue to study system (1), to study its other dynamic behaviors, such as the existence of Hopf bifurcation and chaos. This paper is organized as follows. In the following section, we show that there exists Hopf bifurcation under some conditions. In Section 3, the existence of chaos in the sense of Marotto’s definition is proved. The numerical simulations are given in section 4.

2 Hopf bifurcation analysis

In this section, we establish conditions for the existence of Hopf bifurcation in system (1). Firstly, we introduce the following lemmas which are useful to establish our results

3 Existence of Marotto’s chaos

4 Numerical simulations

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一類離散捕食-被捕食系統的動力學復雜性

張莉敏，李 玲

（四川文理學院 數學與財經系，四川 達州 635000）

本文對文獻[2]提出的一類離散捕食系統的動力學行為進行進一步研究. 首先利用分支理論，探討了系統在一定條件下存在 Hopf分支；隨后證明了系統在一定條件下存在 Marotto’s 混沌吸引子；最后利用數值模擬，不但驗證了理論分析的正確性而且還揭示了系統其它動力學行為，例如：倍周期、到倍周期分岔，吸引子危機，擬周期, 混沌帶和周期窗口.

Hopf 分支；Marotto’s 混沌；數值模擬

Biography：ZHANG Li-min (1982-), female, Lecturer, Research fields: Biological dynamics.

Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.30970305), the Sichuan Provincial Education Department Scientific Research Project (No.TER2009-14)，the Sichuan Provincial Old Revolutionary Base Areas Foundation (No.SLQ2010C-17), and the Sichuan University of Arts and Science Natural Scientific Research Project (No. 2009B07Z).