Periodic solution for athree-species Lotka-Volterra food-chain model with time delays

  • Authors:
  • Rui Xu;M. A. J. Chaplain;F. A. Davidson

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

A delayed three-species periodic Lotka-Volterra food-chain model without instantaneousnegative feedback is investigated. By using Gaines and Mawhin's continuation theorem of coincidence degree theory and by constructing a suitable Lyapunov functional, a set of easily verifiable sufficient conditions are derived for the existence, uniqueness, and global stability of positive periodic solutions of the system. Computer simulations are presented to illustrate the conclusions.