ISSN:
1432-1416
Keywords:
Stability
;
Discrete population models
;
Bifurcation
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Biology
,
Mathematics
Notes:
Abstract Sufficiency conditions for local stability are derived for a class of density dependent Leslie matrix models. Four of the recruitment functions in common use in fisheries management are then considered. In two of these oscillating instability can never occur (Beverton and Holt and Cushing forms). In the other two (Deriso-Schnute and Shepherd forms) undamped oscillations are possible within the region of parameter space described here. An algorithm is developed for calculating necessary and sufficient local stability conditions for a simplified form of the general age-structured model. The complete spectrum of stability states (monotonic stability; monotonic instability; oscillating-stable; oscillating-unstable) and the bifurcation periods are given for selected examples of this model. The examples cover a large portion of the parameter space of interest in resource management. It is shown that in perfectly deterministic systems which are observed with error, oscillating instabilities may be missed, and such systems could be erroneously assumed to be stable.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00276060
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