Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 May 2017
We analyse the asymptotic behaviour of a biological system described by a stochastic competition model with $n$ species and $k$ resources (chemostat model), in which the species mortality rates are influenced by the fractional Brownian motion of the extrinsic noise environment. By constructing a Lyapunov functional, the persistence and extinction criteria are derived in the mean square sense. Some examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the theoretical result.