A prey-predator system with herd behaviour of prey in a rapidly fluctuating environment

Abstract

A statistical theory of non-equilibrium fluctuation in damped Volterra-Lotka prey-predator system where prey population lives in herd in a rapidly fluctuating random environment has been presented. The method is based on the technique of perturbation approximation of non-linear coupled stochastic differential equations. The characteristic of group-living of prey population has been emphasized using square root of prey density in the functional response.

Keywords

• herd; random environment; coloured noise; stability.