TITLE:
Population Interaction Dynamics Analysis of an Algae-Fish System
AUTHORS:
Ziyou Zhuang, Jueyuan Yan, Xinyu Xie, Lihua Dai, Chaoyue Huang, Fangfang Chen, Hengguo Yu
KEYWORDS:
Algae Population, Filter-Feeding Fish, Population Interaction Dynamics, Hopf Bifurcation, Stability
JOURNAL NAME:
Applied Mathematics,
Vol.13 No.6,
June
28,
2022
ABSTRACT: In this paper, before the implementation of ecological laboratory experiments, the population interaction dynamics of an algae-fish system were studied mathematically and numerically. The purpose of this study was to explore how filter-feeding fish population affects the growth dynamics of the algae population. Mathematically theoretical works have been pursuing the investigation of some key conditions for stability of the equilibrium and existence of Hopf bifurcation. Numerical simulation works have been parsing the discovery of the growth dynamics of the algae population in view of population interaction dynamics, which in turn could prove the feasibility of the theoretical derivation and reveal the relationship between filter-feeding fish abundance and algal biomass in fish-drift algae communiyua. Furthermore, it was successful to show that the filter-feeding fish population may be a crucial factor in controlling the proliferation of the algae population, which could also directly grasp the evolution of community dynamics. All these results were expected to be useful in the study of community dynamics and laboratory elimination experiment of the algae population.