UNSPECIFIED. (2004) The effect of seasonal harvesting on stage-structured population models. JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY, 48 (4). pp. 357-374. ISSN 0303-6812

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Abstract

In most models of population dynamics, increases in population due to birth are assumed to be time-independent, but many species reproduce only during a single period of the year. We propose an exploited single-species model with stage structure for the dynamics in a fish population for which births occur in a single pulse once per time period. Since birth pulse populations are often characterized with a discrete time dynamical system determined by its Poincare map, we explore the consequences of harvest timing to equilibrium population sizes under seasonal dependence and obtain threshold conditions for their stability, and show that the timing of harvesting has a strong impact on the persistence of the fish population, on the volume of mature fish stock and on the maximum annual-sustainable yield. Moreover, our results imply that the population can sustain much higher harvest rates if the mature fish is removed as early in the season (after the birth pulse) as possible. Further, the effects of harvesting effort and harvest timing on the dynamical complexity are also investigated. Bifurcation diagrams are constructed with the birth rate (or harvesting effort or harvest timing) as the bifurcation parameter, and these are observed to display rich structure, including chaotic bands with periodic windows, pitch-fork and tangent bifurcations, non-unique dynamics (meaning that several attractors coexist) and attractor crisis. This suggests that birth pulse, in effect, provides a natural period or cyclicity that makes the dynamical behavior more complex.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology
Journal or Publication Title:	JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY
Publisher:	SPRINGER-VERLAG
ISSN:	0303-6812
Date:	April 2004
Volume:	48
Number:	4
Number of Pages:	18
Page Range:	pp. 357-374
Identification Number:	10.1007/s00285-003-0243-5
Publication Status:	Published
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/8609

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