Scenarios Leading to Chaos in a Forced Lotka-Volterra Model

Extinction in Lotka-Volterra model

Competitive birth-death processes often exhibit an oscillatory behavior. We investigate a particular case where the oscillation cycles are marginally stable on the mean-field level. An iconic example of such a system is the Lotka-Volterra model of predator-prey competition. Fluctuation effects due to discreteness of the populations destroy the mean-field stability and eventually drive the syste...

Fixation in a cyclic Lotka-Volterra model

We study a cyclic Lotka-Volterra model of N interacting species populating a d-dimensional lattice. In the realm of a Kirkwood approximation, a critical number of species Nc(d) above which the system fixates is determined analytically. We find Nc = 5, 14, 23 in dimensions d = 1, 2, 3, in remarkably good agreement with simulation results in two dimensions. A cyclic variant of the Lotka-Volterra ...

Chaos in Low-Dimensional Lotka-Volterra Models of Competition

The occurrence of chaos in basic Lotka-Volterra models of four competing species is studied. A brute-force numerical search conditioned on the largest Lyapunov exponent indicates that chaos occurs in a narrow region of parameter space but is robust to perturbations. The dynamics of the attractor are studied using symbolic dynamics, and the question of self-organized critical behavior (scale-inv...

Stochastic delay Lotka–Volterra model

We reveal in this paper that the environmental noise will not only suppress a potential population explosion in the stochastic delay Lotka–Volterra model but will also make the solutions to be stochastically ultimately bounded. To reveal these interesting facts, we stochastically perturb the delay Lotka–Volterra model ẋ(t) = diag(x1(t), . . . , xn(t))[b + Ax(t − τ)] into the Itô form dx(t)= dia...

Dynamics of a discrete Lotka-Volterra model