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Pest control may make the pest population explode

  • Hirokazu Ninomiya
  • , Hans F. Weinberger

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Abstract

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 languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)869-873
Number of pages5
JournalZeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Physik
Volume54
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2003
Externally publishedYes

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 15 - Life on Land
    SDG 15 Life on Land

Keywords

  • Blow-up
  • Linear perturbation
  • Predator-prey model

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