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On the uniform stability for a ‘food-limited’ population model with time delay*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Joseph W.-H. So
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaT6G 2G1
J. S. Yu
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan 410082, P.R. China

Extract

In this paper, we provide sufficient conditions which guarantee the uniform stability as well as asymptotic stability of the positive equilibrium for a food limited population model with time delay.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1995

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