Pest control may make the pest population explode

Hirokazu Ninomiya; Hans F. Weinberger

doi:10.1007/s00033-003-3210-5

Pest control may make the pest population explode

Hirokazu Ninomiya, Hans F. Weinberger

School of Mathematics

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We present an example of a predator-prey-like system with a prey-only state as a global attractor, and with the additional property that an attempt to control the prey by harvesting or poisoning both species produces solutions in which both populations blow up in finite time.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	869-873
Number of pages	5
Journal	Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Physik
Volume	54
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00033-003-3210-5
State	Published - Sep 2003

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Blow-up
Linear perturbation
Predator-prey model

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