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E Bešo1, S Kalabušić1, N Mujić2
1Department of Mathematics, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Abstract:
A certain class of a host-parasitoid models, where some host are completely free from parasitism within a spatial refuge is studied. In this paper, we assume that a constant portion of host population may find a refuge and be safe from attack by parasitoids. We investigate the effect of the presence of refuge on the local stability and bifurcation of models. We give the reduction to the normal form and computation of the coefficients of the Neimark-Sacker bifurcation and the asymptotic approximation of the invariant curve. Then we apply theory to the three well-known host-parasitoid models, but now with refuge effect. In one of these models Chenciner bifurcation occurs. By using package Mathematica, we plot bifurcation diagrams, trajectories and the regions of stability and instability for each of these models.
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