Periodic Lotka-Volterra competition equations.

نویسنده

  • J M Cushing
چکیده

The Lotka-Volterra competition equations with periodic coefficients derived from the MacArthur-Levins theory of a one-dimensional resource niche are studied when the parameters are allowed to oscillate periodically in time. Specifically, niche positions and widths, resource availability and resource consumption rates are allowed small amplitude periodicities around a specified mean value. Two opposite cases are studied both analytically and numerically. First only resource consumption rates are allowed to oscillate while niche dimensions and resource availability are held constant. The resulting oscillations in population densities and the strength of the system stability as they depend upon crucial relative phase and amplitude differences between the species' consumption rates are studied. This leads to a clear notion of "temporal niche" and of the effects that such oscillations can have on competitive coexistence. Secondly, all system parameters are allowed to oscillate, although the oscillatory consumption rates are assumed identical for both species. The effects on the population density oscillations and their averages are studied and the "best" choice of the common, periodic resource consumption rate for these two "identical" species competing for similar (even identical) niches is considered.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of mathematical biology

دوره 24 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1986