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Mechanistically derived Toxicant-mediated predator-prey model under Stoichiometric constraints

Authors :
Nazmul Hassan
Angela Peace
Source :
Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, Vol 17, Iss 1, Pp 349-365 (2020)
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), 2020.

Abstract

Studies in ecological stoichiometry highlight that grazer dynamics are affected by insufficient food nutrient content (low phosphorus (P)/carbon (C) ratio) as well as excess food nutrient content (high P:C). Contaminant stressors affect all levels of the biological hierarchy, from cells to organs to organisms to populations to entire ecosystems. Eco-toxicological modeling under the framework of ecological stoichiometry predicts the risk of bio-accumulation of a toxicant under stoichiometric constraints. In this paper, we developed and analyzed a Lotka-Volterra type predator- prey model which explicitly tracks the environmental toxicant as well as the toxicant in the populations under stoichiometric constraints. Analytic, numerical, slow-fast steady state and bifurcation theory are employed to predict the risk of toxicant bio-accumulation under varying food conditions. In some cases, our model predicts different population dynamics, including wide amplitude limit cycles where producer densities exhibit very low values and may be in danger of stochastic extinction.

Details

ISSN :
15510018
Volume :
17
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....0e7dccb4d63f83b71fe3effb93219d33
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3934/mbe.2020019