| Issue |
EPL
Volume 79, Number 2, July 2007
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 20005 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/79/20005 | |
| Published online | 10 July 2007 | |
Noise and time delay: Suppressed population explosion of the mutualism system
1
Department of Physics, Yunnan University - Kunming 650091, China
2
Science School, Kunming University of Science and Technology - Kunming 650051, China
Received:
11
March
2007
Accepted:
11
June
2007
We have analyzed effects of noise and time delay in a classical Lotka-Volterra model of mutualism system. We show that the consideration of the noise and the time delay change drastically the behavior of the system in the deterministic case. To a certain degree, the noise or the time delay can suppress the population explosion of the mutualism system, which takes place in the deterministic case, however, the average species population of system with only the noise or the time delay does not converge. Combination of the noise and the time delay completely suppress the population explosion of the mutualism system.
PACS: 05.40.-a – Fluctuation phenomena, random processes, noise, and Brownian motion / 02.50.-r – Probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics / 87.23.-n – Ecology and evolution
© Europhysics Letters Association, 2007
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