In presence of predator population, the prey population may significantly change their behavior. Fear for predator population enhances the survival probability of prey population, and it can greatly reduce the reproduction of prey population. In this study, we propose a predator-prey fishery model introducing the cost of fear into prey reproduction with Holling type-II functional response and prey-dependent harvesting and investigate the global dynamics of the proposed model. For the system without harvest, it is shown that the level of fear may alter the stability of the positive equilibrium, and an expression of fear critical level is characterized. For the harvest system, the existence of the semitrivial order-1 periodic solution and positive order-
 
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 periodic solution is given. Meanwhile, to achieve a good economic profit, an optimization problem is formulated and the optimum harvest level is obtained. Mathematical findings have been validated in numerical simulation by MATLAB. Different effects of different harvest levels and different fear levels have been demonstrated by depicting figures in numerical simulation using MATLAB.

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The Study of a Predator-Prey Model with Fear Effect Based on State-Dependent Harvesting Strategy

Individual specialization and generalization in predator-prey dynamics: The determinant role of predation efficiency and prey reproductive rates

The interplay of phytoplankton, zooplankton, and fish is one of the most important aspects of the aquatic environment. In this paper, we propose to explore the dynamics of a phytoplankton-zooplankton-fish system, with fear-induced birth rate reduction in the middle predator by the top predator and an additional food source for the top predator fish. Phytoplankton-zooplankton and zooplankton-fish interactions are handled using Holling type IV and II responses, respectively. First, we prove the well-posedness of the system, followed by results related to the existence of possible equilibrium points. Conditions under which a different number of interior equilibria exist are also derived here. We also show this existence numerically by varying the intrinsic growth rate of phytoplankton species, which demonstrates the model's vibrant nature from a mathematical point of view. Furthermore, we performed the local and global stability analysis around the above equilibrium points, and the transversality conditions for the occurrence of Hopf bifurcations and transcritical bifurcations are established. We observe numerically that for low levels of fear, the system behaves chaotically, and as we increase the fear parameter, the solution approaches a stable equilibrium by the route of period-halving. The chaotic behavior of the system at low levels of fear can also be controlled by increasing the quality of additional food. To corroborate our findings, we constructed several phase portraits, time-series graphs, and one- and two-parametric bifurcation diagrams. The computation of the largest Lyapunov exponent and a sketch of Poincaré maps verify the chaotic character of the proposed system. On varying the parametric values, the system exhibits phenomena like multistability and the enrichment paradox, which are the basic qualities of non-linear models. Thus, the current study can also help ecologists to estimate the parameters to study and obtain such important findings related to non-linear PZF systems. Therefore, from a biological and mathematical perspective, the analysis and the corresponding results of this article appear to be rich and interesting.

Bijoy Kumar Das

Papers

Impact of fear in a delay-induced predator–prey system with intraspecific competition within predator species