Complex network near-synchronization for non-identical predator-prey systems

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze the properties of a complex network of predator-prey systems, modeling the ecological dynamics of interacting species living in a fragmented environment. We consider non-identical instances of a Lotka-Volterra model with Holling type II functional response, which undergoes a Hopf bifurcation, and focus on the possible synchronization of distinct local behaviours. We prove an original result for the near-synchronization of non-identical systems, which shows how to and to what extent an extinction dynamic can be driven to a persistence equilibrium. Our theoretical statements are illustrated by appropriate numerical simulations.

Keywords

• complex network
• non-identical systems
• synchronization
• ecology