报告题目: Existence of limit cycles and homoclinic bifurcation in a plant-herbivore model with toxin-determined functional response

报告人:赵育林 中山大学教授

报告时间:2014.11.24(周一)下午4:00-5:00

报告地点:维格堂119

 

摘要:We study a two-dimensional toxin-determined functional response model (TDFRM). The toxin-determined functional response explicitly takes into consideration the reduction in the consumption of plants by herbivore due to chemical defence, which generates more complex dynamics of the plant-herbivore interactions. The purpose of the present paper is to analyze the existence of limit cycles and bifurcations of the model. By applying the theories of rotated vector fields and the extended planar termination principle, we establish the conditions for the existence   of limit cycles and homoclinic loop.  It is shown that a limit cycle   is generated  in a supercritical Hopf bifurcation and terminated in a  homoclinic bifurcation, as the parameters vary.  Analytic proofs are provided for all results, which generalize the results presented in other papers.