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Predator-prey dynamics mathematical model

In 1914, F. W. Lanchester introduced a set of coupled ordinary differential equations-now commonly called the Lanchester Equationsl (LEs)-as models of attrition in modern warfare. Similar ideas were proposed around that time by [chaseSS] and [osip95]. These equations are formally equivalent to the Lotka-Volterra equations used for modeling the dynamics of interacting predator-prey populations [hof98]. The LEs have since served as the fundamental mathematical models upon which most modern theories of combat attrition are based, and are to this day embedded in many state-of-the-art military models of combat. [Taylor] provides a thorough mathematical discussion. [Pg.592]

From a mathematical point of view, the onset of sustained oscillations generally corresponds to the passage through a Hopf bifurcation point [19] For a critical value of a control parameter, the steady state becomes unstable as a focus. Before the bifurcation point, the system displays damped oscillations and eventually reaches the steady state, which is a stable focus. Beyond the bifurcation point, a stable solution arises in the form of a small-amplitude limit cycle surrounding the unstable steady state [15, 17]. By reason of their stability or regularity, most biological rhythms correspond to oscillations of the limit cycle type rather than to Lotka-Volterra oscillations. Such is the case for the periodic phenomena in biochemical and cellular systems discussed in this chapter. The phase plane analysis of two-variable models indicates that the oscillatory dynamics of neurons also corresponds to the evolution toward a limit cycle [20]. A similar evolution is predicted [21] by models for predator-prey interactions in ecology. [Pg.255]

Murdie, G. and Hassel, M. P. (1973) Food distribution, searching success and predator-prey models. In The Mathematical Theory of the Dynamics of Biological Populations (Hiorns, R. W., ed.) pp. 87-101. Academic Press, New York. [Pg.108]

Vito Volterra (1860-1940), an Italian mathematician, and Alfred J. Lotka (1880-1949), an American mathematical biologist, formulated at about the same time the so-called Lotka-Volterra model of predator-prey population dynamics. The assumptions of this model are ... [Pg.327]


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