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Coupling effect of grazing pressure and nutrient enrichment on system stability
1Immunology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067, India. samrat_ct@rediffmail.com
Abstract:
A three dimensional nutrient-plant-herbivore model was proposed and conditions for boundedness, positive invariance, existence and stability of different equilibrium points, Hopf-bifurcation and global stability were obtained. We performed numerical simulations to observe the simultaneous effect of the top-down and the bottom-up mechanism on the system. It was found that nutrient enrichment destroyed the coexistence steady state of the system. This nutrient enrichment could be due to high nutrient input rate or high nutrient recycling rate. In both cases the system showed instability. Moreover, these results were independent of the grazing pressure and the predation functional form.
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