Multiple attractors of host–parasitoid models with integrated pest management strategies: Eradication, persistence and outbreak

Sanyi Tang, Yanni Xiao and Robert A. Cheke

Theoretical Population Biology, 2008, vol. 73, issue 2, 181-197

Abstract: Host–parasitoid models including integrated pest management (IPM) interventions with impulsive effects at both fixed and unfixed times were analyzed with regard to host-eradication, host–parasitoid persistence and host-outbreak solutions. The host-eradication periodic solution with fixed moments is globally stable if the host’s intrinsic growth rate is less than the summation of the mean host-killing rate and the mean parasitization rate during the impulsive period. Solutions for all three categories can coexist, with switch-like transitions among their attractors showing that varying dosages and frequencies of insecticide applications and the numbers of parasitoids released are crucial. Periodic solutions also exist for models with unfixed moments for which the maximum amplitude of the host is less than the economic threshold. The dosages and frequencies of IPM interventions for these solutions are much reduced in comparison with the pest-eradication periodic solution. Our results, which are robust to inclusion of stochastic effects and with a wide range of parameter values, confirm that IPM is more effective than any single control tactic.

Keywords: Nicholson–Bailey model; IPM; Economic threshold; Impulsive difference equations; Coexistence; Host outbreak (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2007.12.001

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