Stability and bifurcation of a delayed prey-predator eco-epidemiological model with the impact of media

Abstract

In this paper, a delayed prey-predator eco-epidemiological model with the nonlinear media is considered. First, the positivity and boundedness of solutions are given. Then, the basic reproductive number is showed, and the local stability of the trivial equilibrium and the disease-free equilibrium are discussed. Next, by taking the infection delay as a parameter, the conditions of the stability switches are given due to stability switching criteria, which concludes that the delay can generate instability and oscillation of the population through Hopf bifurcation. Further, by using normal form theory and center manifold theory, some explicit expressions determining direction of Hopf bifurcation and stability of periodic solutions are obtained. What's more, the correctness of the theoretical analysis is verified by numerical simulation, and the biological explanations are also given. Last, the main conclusions are included in the end.

Keywords

• eco-epidemiology
• media
• delay
• stability switches
• hopf bifurcation