Almost periodic dynamics of a discrete Nicholson’s blowflies model involving a linear harvesting term

Alzabut Jehad, Bolat Yaåÿar, Abdeljawad, Abdeljawad Thabet

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We consider a discrete Nicholson’s blowflies model involving a linear harvesting term. Under appropriate assumptions, sufficient conditions are established for the existence and exponential convergence of positive almost periodic solutions of this model. To expose the effectiveness of the main theorems, we support our result by a numerical example. MSC: 39A11.

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• Exponential stability

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• Publié par: biomed
• Publié le: 01 janvier 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 16

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Alzabut et al.Advances in Difference Equations2012,2012:158 http://www.advancesindifferenceequations.com/content/2012/1/158

R E S E A R C HOpen Access Almost periodic dynamics of a discrete Nicholson’s blowflies model involving a linear harvesting term 1* 23 JehadAlzabut,Ya¸sarBolatandThabetAbdeljawad

* Correspondence: [e-mail] 1 Department of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Prince Sultan University, P.O. Box 66833, Riyadh, 11586, Saudi Arabia Full list of author information is available at the end of the article

Abstract We consider a discrete Nicholson’s blowflies model involving a linear harvesting term. Under appropriate assumptions, sufficient conditions are established for the existence and exponential convergence of positive almost periodic solutions of this model. To expose the effectiveness of the main theorems, we support our result by a numerical example. MSC:39A11 Keywords:almost periodic solution; exponential stability; Nicholson’s blowflies model; harvesting term

1 Introduction In [], Gurneyet al.proposed the following nonlinear autonomous delay equation:

–λx(t–τ) x(t) = –αx(t) +βx(t–τ)e,

α,β,τ,λ∈(,∞)

(.)

to describe the population of the Australian sheep blowfly and to agree with the experi- mental data obtained by Nicholson in []. Herex(t) is the size of the population at timet, βis the maximumper capitadaily egg production, /λis the size at which the blowfly pop- ulation reproduces at its maximum rate,αis theper capitadaily adult death rate, andτis the generation time. Equation (.) is recognized in the literature as Nicholson’s blowflies model. The dynamical behavior of solutions of this model and its various modifications have been extensively studied by many authors during the last couple of decades. For more details, we suggest to the readers that they consult [–]. Biologists have proposed that the process of harvesting population is of great signifi- cance in the exploitation of biological resources,i.e., in fishery, forestry and wildlife man- agement. This justification has attracted the attention of many mathematicians who are interested in studying the dynamic behavior of population models governed by differential or difference equations [, ]. In their recent paper [], in particular, Berezanskyet al. have put forward a question about the asymptotic behavior of the well-known Nicholson’s blowflies model involving a linear harvesting term of the form

–λx(t–τ) x(t) = –αx(t) +βx(t–τ)e–Hx(t–σ),α,β,τ,λ,σ,H∈(,∞). (.) ©2012 Alzabut et al.; licensee Springer. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.