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Sudeshna Mondal1, Guruprasad Samanta1, Manuel De la Sen2
1Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah, 711103, India.
Abstract:
In theoretical ecology, recent field experiments on terrestrial vertebrates observe that the predator-prey interaction can not only be curtailed by direct consumption but also governed by some indirect effects such as the fear of predator which may reduce the reproduction rate of prey individuals. Based on this fact, we have developed and explored the predator-prey interaction with the influence of both cost and benefit of fear effect (felt by prey). A Holling type III functional response with the effect of habitat complexity has been taken to consume the prey biomass. Positivity and boundedness of the studied system prove that the model is well-behaved. The uniform persistence of the studied system is derived analytically under some parametric restrictions. The feasibility conditions and stability criteria of each equilibrium points have been discussed. Next, we have exhibited the existence of Hopf-bifurcation around the interior equilibrium point. Our mathematical analyses show that habitat complexity and fear effect both have a great impact on the persistence of the predator biomass. Furthermore, we have investigated the effect of breeding delay parameter such that the system loses its stability behaviour and enters into a limit cycle oscillations through Hopf-bifurcation. Numerical simulations are illustrated to verify our analytical outcomes. Numerically, we have perturbed the death rates of prey and predator species with Gaussian white noise terms due to the effects of environmental fluctuations.
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