Bifurcation analysis of a system for population dynamics

Author(s)

Andre Ricardo Belotto da Silva

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Matemática e Estatística (IME/SBI)
• Defense date: 2010-07-16

Examining board members

Jorge Manuel Sotomayor Tello; Ronaldo Alves Garcia; Pedro Antonio Santoro Salomão

• Advisor: Jorge Manuel Sotomayor Tello

Abstract

In this work are studied the bifurcations of a bi-dimensional predator-prey model, which extends and improves the Volterra-Lotka system. This model has five parameters and a non-monotonic response function of Holling IV type: $$ \\left\\{\\begin \\dot=x(1-\\lambda x-\\frac{\\alpha x^2+\\beta x +1})\\\\ \\dot=y(-\\delta-\\mu y+\\frac{\\alpha x^2+\\beta x +1}) \\end ight. $$ They studied the sadle-node, Hopf, transcritic, Bogdanov-Takens and degenerate Bogdanov-Takens bifurcations. The method of organising centers is used to study the qualitative behavior of the bifurcation diagram. (AU)