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Journal of Biological Dynamics

Volume 1, Issue 4, 2007

Special Issue: American Mathematical Society Meeting, New Orleans, January 2007

Multiple mixed-type attractors in a competition model

Multiple mixed-type attractors in a competition model

DOI:
10.1080/17513750701610010
J. M. Cushinga*, Shandelle M. Hensonb & Chantel C. Blackburna

pages 347-362

Available online: 12 Nov 2007

Abstract

We show that a discrete-time, two-species competition model with Ricker (exponential) nonlinearities can exhibit multiple mixed-type attractors. By this is meant dynamic scenarios in which there are simultaneously present both coexistence attractors (in which both species are present) and exclusion attractors (in which one species is absent). Recent studies have investigated the inclusion of life-cycle stages in competition models as a casual mechanism for the existence of these kinds of multiple attractors. In this paper we investigate the role of nonlinearities in competition models without life-cycle stages.

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  • Available online: 12 Nov 2007

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  • a Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA
  • b Department of Mathematics, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI, 49104, USA

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