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Mats Gyllenberg1, Jifa Jiang2, Lei Niu3,4
1Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Abstract:
We study the occurrence of chaos in the Atkinson-Allen model of four competing species, which plays the role as a discrete-time Lotka-Volterra-type model. We show that in this model chaos can be generated by a cascade of quasiperiod-doubling bifurcations starting from a supercritical Neimark-Sacker bifurcation of the unique positive fixed point. The chaotic attractor is contained in a globally attracting invariant manifold of codimension one, known as the carrying simplex. Biologically, our study implies that the invasion attempts by an invader into a trimorphic population under Atkinson-Allen dynamics can lead to chaos.
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