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Population dynamics have been attracting interest since many years. Among the considered models, the Richards’ equations remain one of the most popular to describe biological growth processes. On the other hand, Allee effect is currently a major focus of ecological research, which occurs when positive density-dependence dominates at low densities. In this chapter, we propose the dynamical study of classes of functions based on Richards’ models describing the existence or not of Allee effect. We investigate bifurcation structures in generalized Richards’ functions and we look for the conditions in the \((\beta, r)\) parameter plane for the existence of a weak Allee effect region. We show that the existence of this region is related with the existence of a dovetail structure. When the Allee limit varies, the weak Allee effect region disappears when the dovetail structure also disappears. Consequently, we deduce the transition from the weak Allee effect to no Allee effect to this family of functions. To support our analysis, we present fold and flip bifurcation curves and numerical simulations of several bifurcation diagrams.
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Research partially sponsored by national funds through the Fundação Nacional para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal – FCT, under the project PEst-OE/MAT/UI0006/2014, CEAUL and ISEL.
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Rocha, J., Taha, AK., Fournier-Prunaret, D. (2015). From Weak Allee Effect to No Allee Effect in Richards’ Growth Models. In: López-Ruiz, R., Fournier-Prunaret, D., Nishio, Y., Grácio, C. (eds) Nonlinear Maps and their Applications. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 112. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12328-8_16
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