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Effects of Additional Foods to Predators on Nutrient-Consumer-Predator Food Chain Model
Author(s) -
Banshidhar Sahoo
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
isrn biomathematics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2090-7702
DOI - 10.5402/2012/796783
Subject(s) - predator , controllability , predation , food chain , nutrient , food quality , food supply , apex predator , ecology , environmental science , mathematics , biology , food science , agricultural science
We have proposed a nutrient-consumer-predator model with additional food to predator, at variable nutrient enrichment levels. The boundedness property and the conditions for local stability of boundary and interior equilibrium points of the system are derived. Bifurcation analysis is done with respect to quality and quantity of additional food and consumer’s death rate for the model. The system has stable as well as unstable dynamics depending on supply of additional food to predator. This model shows that supply of additional food plays an important role in the biological controllability of the system.

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