Author(s)

Tahmineh Azizi, Bacim Alali

Department of Mathematics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA.

In this paper, we investigate the complex dynamics of two-species Ricker-type discrete-time competitive model. We perform a local stability analysis for the fixed points and we will discuss about its persistence for boundary fixed points. This system inherits the dynamics of one-dimensional Ricker model such as cascade of period-doubling bifurcation, periodic windows and chaos. We explore the existence of chaos for the equilibrium points for a specific case of this system using Marotto theorem and proving the existence of snap-back repeller. We use several dynamical systems tools to demonstrate the qualitative behaviors of the system.

Complex Dynamics, Snap-Back Repeller, Marotto Theorem, Persistence Theory, Bifurcation

Azizi, T. and Alali, B. (2020) Chaos Induced by Snap-Back Repeller in a Two Species Competitive Model. American Journal of Computational Mathematics, 10, 311-328. doi: 10.4236/ajcm.2020.102017.