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Title Analysis of an Extended Rosenzweig-MacArthur Model of a Tri-Trophic Food Chain

Name Michael A Freeze
Country USA
Email freezem@uncw.edu
Co-Author(s) Wei Feng, Nicole Rocco, Xin Lu
Submit Time 2014-04-10 12:17:03
Session
Special Session 46: Qualitative theory of differential equations and applications
Contents
We study an extension of the Rosenzweig-MacArthur tri-trophic food chain model in which the super-predator consumes both the predator and the prey. After finding the ultimate bounds and conditions for exponential convergence for these populations, we identify all equilibria and investigate their stability or instability in relation with all the ecological parameters. We focus our investigation on determining conditions for the existence, uniqueness and stability of a coexistence equilibrium.