Abstract
The phytoplankton–zooplankton is fundamentally important to study plankton and protect marine environment. In this paper, we propose a diffusive phytoplankton–zooplankton model, in which we also consider time delay in zooplankton predation and harvesting in zooplankton. By analyzing the distribution of eigenvalues, we investigate the stability of the positive equilibrium and the existence of Hopf bifurcation using time delay as a bifurcation parameter. We analyze the property of Hopf bifurcation and give an explicit formula for determining the direction and the stability of Hopf bifurcation. Finally, by numerical simulation, we analyze the effect of harvesting, conversion rate, half-saturation, and time delay. We conclude that harvesting parameter, conversion rate, and half-saturation constant all can be used in controlling the bloom of plankton population.
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1 Introduction
Plankton are the basis for aquatic food chains and they can absorb not less than half of the carbon dioxide, producing a huge amount of oxygen for humans and other living animals. The importance of plankton in marine ecosystem has been widely recognized [1, 2]. Plankton are also the base of the marine food chain. Generally, plankton can be divided into two kinds: phytoplankton and zooplankton [3]. Phytoplankton are plant species unicellular and microscopic in size. Zooplankton are animal species that feed on these phytoplankton. Therefore, zooplankton and phytoplankton form predator–prey relationship. Many researchers have studied the predator–prey model and obtained many important results [4,5,6,7,8,9,10].
In the last decades, the global increase in toxin-producing phytoplankton (TPP) blooms has attracted a lot of attention [11, 12]. These harmful phytoplankton may affect human health, commercial fisheries, ecosystem and environment, and so on. Toxin-producing phytoplankton can reduce zooplankton population. Some studies reveal that zooplankton’s grazing and fecundity decrease in harmful algal bloom [13]. Many scholars attempt to describe the reduction of zooplankton due to toxin-producing phytoplankton [12, 14,15,16].
Some zooplankton such as jellyfish, krill, and acetes can be harvested for food. Hence, the stocks of these tiny zooplankton play a significant role in marine reserves and fishery management. For these reasons, many scholars have studied phytoplankton–zooplankton (or predator–prey) models with harvesting [16,17,18,19,20]. Generally, harvesting can be divided into three types [21]: (i) constant rate of harvesting, where a fixed number of individuals are harvested per unit time; (ii) proportionate harvesting, where the catch rate is proportional to the stock and effort; and (iii) nonlinear harvesting (Holling type II, Michaelis–Menten type). In [16], the authors studied a toxic phytoplankton–zooplankton model with proportionate harvesting, including the stability of equilibria and Hopf bifurcation. They suggested that harvesting can enlarge the stable range of the coexisting equilibrium to a certain extent. But when the harvesting exceeds some critical value, zooplankton will die out.
The functional response of predators to prey density is important for predator–prey models [22,23,24,25]. In ecology, many factors, such as predator hunting ability, prey escape ability, and structure of the prey habitat, can affect functional responses. Generally, functional responses can be divided into types: prey-dependent (such as Holling I–IV) and prey–predator-dependent (such as Beddington–DeAngelis, Crowley–Martin, Hassel–Varley). Holling IV type functional response is a kind of important functional responses and can enrich the dynamics of predator–prey models. Zhou et al. studied a predator–prey discrete-time model with Holling IV type functional response and obtained some sufficient conditions for the permanence of the system with variable coefficients [26]. Huang et al. considered a predator–prey system with Holling type IV functional response and showed that there exists a unique degenerate positive equilibrium which is a degenerate Bogdanov–Takens singularity of codimension three for other values of parameters [27]. In [28], Sharma et al. use Holling IV type functional for zooplankton to represent the effect of toxication by TPP population. They proposed a delayed phytoplankton–zooplankton model
where \(P(t)\) and \(Z(t)\) represent the population density of TPP species and zooplankton at time t, respectively. All parameters involved with the model are positive. Parameter r is the growth rate of TPP species. c and s are the maximum ingestion and conversion rate by zooplankton population, respectively. a is the mortality rate of phytoplankton population due to intra specific competition between the species and d is the natural death rate of zooplankton population. E is a constant rate of harvesting. τ is time delay in zooplankton predation. The term \(P/(P^{2}/e+P+b)\) represents the effect of harmful phytoplankton species on zooplankton, where e is the tolerance limit of zooplankton and b is the half-saturation constant. In [28], authors studied the stability and Hopf bifurcation at positive equilibrium and gave numerical simulation.
In the lakes or oceans, because of currents and turbulent diffusion or other reasons, plankton may move. Phytoplankton and zooplankton population densities are of the property of spatial variation. Many authors have modeled this spatial variation of population in phytoplankton and zooplankton by reaction diffusion equations [29,30,31]. Many other scholars have studied the predator–prey system with diffusion [32,33,34,35]. Comparing with the work without spatial variation, they suggested that diffusion may induce Turing instability and spatially non-homogeneous bifurcating periodic solution. In this paper, we will study the effect of spatial variation on model (1.1). In ocean, there are many factors that can affect the spatial variation of phytoplankton and zooplankton, but we cannot consider all these factors at the moment. We just consider the physical diffusion of the phytoplankton and zooplankton population. Assume that the water is closed with no plankton species entering and leaving at the boundary. We consider a reaction–diffusion phytoplankton–zooplankton model taking the following form:
The aim of this paper is to study the dynamical properties of system (1.2). The stability of equilibrium is considered to show whether Turing instability occurs for a non-delay system and a delay system. Hopf bifurcation analysis is carried out to discuss whether the spatially homogeneous and non-homogeneous bifurcating periodic solutions exist. The effect of harvesting parameter, conversion rate, and half-saturation constant on system (1.2) are investigated to show that they can be used in controlling the bloom of plankton population.
The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In Sect. 2, we study the stability of equilibria for system (1.2) without delay. In Sect. 3, we study the effect of delay on the model including stability and Hopf bifurcation at positive equilibrium. We also study the direction and stability of the bifurcating solution by using a normal form theory and center manifold theorem. In Sect. 4, we give some numerical simulation.
2 Stability analysis of the model without delay
Without delay, system (1.2) becomes
According to [28], system (1.2) has two boundary equilibria \(E_{0}(0,0)\), \(E_{1}(r/a,0)\). If the following equation
has a positive root \(P_{*}\) such that \(P_{*}< r/a\) and \(E< s-d\), then system (1.2) has a positive equilibrium \(E_{*}(P_{*},Z_{*})\), where \(Z_{*}=\frac{ (P_{*}^{2}/e+P_{*}+b )(r-a P_{*})}{c}\). In the following, we always assume that system (1.2) has a positive equilibrium \(E_{*}(P_{*},Z_{*})\).
Define the real-valued Sobolev space
and the complexification of X to be
The linearization of (1.2) near \(E_{*}(P_{*},Z_{*})\) has the form
where \(d=\operatorname{diag} (d_{1},d_{2})\),
and
Obviously, \(a_{2}<0\). Then the characteristic equation of Eq. (2.2) is given by
It is well known that the operator \(u \mapsto \Delta u\) with \(\partial_{\nu}u=0\) at 0 and lπ has eigenvalues \(- {n^{2}}/{l^{2}}\) (\(n\in N_{0}\)) with corresponding eigenfunctions \(\cos(n x/l)\). Let
be an eigenfunction for \(\Delta + L\) with eigenvalue λ, see also [36]. Hence, Eq. (2.4) is equivalent to the following equations:
where
Clearly, the roots of Eq. (2.5) are given by
Obviously, if
holds, then \(T_{n}<0\) and \(D_{n}>0\) for \(n\in\mathbb{N}_{0}\), implying that the roots of Eq. (2.5) have negative real parts.
Theorem 2.1
For system (2.1), if (\(\mathrm{H}_{1}\)) holds, then the equilibrium \(E_{*}(P_{*},Z_{*})\) is locally asymptotically stable.
Remark 2.1
Similarly, we can obtain that \((0,0)\) is always unstable. If \(a e r s/(a^{2} b e+a e r+r^{2})-d-E<0\) (>0), \(E_{1}(r/a,0)\) is locally asymptotically stable (unstable). From \(b_{2}=0\), we can obtain that for system (2.1), Turing instability at \(E_{*}(P_{*},Z_{*})\) will not happen.
3 The effect of delay on the system
3.1 Stability analysis and existence of Hopf bifurcation
In the following, by analyzing the associated characteristic equation at \(E_{*}(P_{*},Z_{*})\), we investigate the stability of \(E_{*}(P_{*},Z_{*})\) and the existence of Hopf bifurcation for system (1.2). We assume that (\(\mathrm{H}_{1}\)) always holds.
Denote
Linearizing system (1.2) at \(E_{*}(P_{*},Z_{*})\), we have
where
and \(L:\mathscr{C}_{\tau} \mapsto X\) is defined by
for \(\phi=(\phi_{1}, \phi_{2})^{T} \in\mathscr{C}_{\tau}\) with
From Wu [37], we obtain that the characteristic equation for linear system (3.1) is
It is well known that the eigenvalue problem
has eigenvalues \(\mu_{n}=n^{2}/l^{2}\) (\(n=0,1,\ldots\)) with corresponding eigenfunctions
Substituting
into the characteristic equation (3.2), it follows that
Therefore the characteristic equation (3.2) is equivalent to
where
When \(\tau=0\), system (1.2) becomes (2.1). If (\(\mathrm{H}_{1}\)) holds, then all the roots of Eq. (3.3) with \(\tau=0\) have negative real parts for \(n \in\mathbb{N}_{0}\) and \(\Delta_{n}(0,\tau)>0\).
We shall seek critical values of τ such that there exists a pair of simple purely imaginary eigenvalues. iω (\(\omega>0\)) is a root of Eq. (3.3) if and only if ω satisfies
Then we have
which leads to
Let \(z = \omega^{2}\), then (3.4) can be rewritten into the following form:
and its roots are given by
By computation, we have
Obviously, \(B_{n}-a_{2}b_{1}=D_{n}>0\) and \(B_{0}+a_{2}b_{1}<0\) under (\(\mathrm{H}_{1}\)). Since \(B_{n}+a_{2}b_{1}\) is increasing with \(n\in\mathbb{N}_{0}\), there exists \(N_{1} \in\mathbb{N}_{0}\) such that \(B_{n}+a_{2}b_{1}<0\) (\(n=0,1,\ldots,N_{1}\)) and \(B_{n}+a_{2}b_{1}>0\) (\(n>N_{1}\)). Hence, for (\(n=0,1,\ldots,N_{1}\)), Eq. (3.5) has one positive root \(z_{+}\), and Eq. (3.3) has a pair of purely imaginary roots \(\pm i\omega_{n}\) at \(\tau^{j}_{n}\) (\(j\in\mathbb{N}_{0}\)), where
Lemma 3.1
Suppose that (\(\mathrm{H}_{1}\)) is satisfied. Then \(\tau^{j}_{n+1}>\tau^{j}_{n}\) for \(0 \le n \le N_{1}\) and \(j\in\mathbb{N}_{0}\) where \(\tau^{j}_{n}\) is defined as in (3.6).
Proof
From (3.6), we have
Under (\(\mathrm{H}_{1}\)), we have \(A^{2}_{n}- 2B_{n}>0\), and \(a_{2}^{2} b_{1}^{2} -B^{2}_{n} >0\) for \(0 \le n \le N_{1}\). In addition, \(A^{2}_{n}- 2B_{n}\) and \(B^{2}_{n}\) is strictly increasing with n and \(a_{2}^{2} b_{1}^{2} -B^{2}_{n}\) is strictly decreasing with n for \(0 \le n \le N_{1}\). Then we have \(\omega^{2}_{n+1}<\omega^{2}_{n}\) for \(0 \le n \le N_{1}\). From (3.6), \(\tau^{j}_{n+1}>\tau^{j}_{n}\) holds for \(0 \le n \le N_{1}\). □
Let \(\lambda_{n}(\tau)= \alpha_{n}(\tau)+i \omega_{n}(\tau)\) be the root of (3.3) satisfying \(\alpha_{n}(\tau^{j}_{n})=0\) and \(\omega_{n}(\tau^{j}_{n}) =\omega_{n}\) when τ is close to \(\tau^{j}_{n}\). Then we have the following transversality condition.
Lemma 3.2
Suppose that (\(\mathrm{H}_{1}\)) is satisfied. Then
Proof
Differentiating two sides of (3.3) with respect τ, we have
Then
Therefore \(\alpha'_{n}(\tau^{j}_{n})>0\). □
Notice that \(\tau^{j}_{m}=\tau^{k}_{n}\) for some \(m\neq n\) may occur. In this paper, we do not consider this case. In other words, we consider
According to the above analysis, we have the following theorem.
Theorem 3.1
For system (1.2), suppose that (\(\mathrm{H}_{1}\)) holds. Then the following statements are true:
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(i)
If \(\tau\in[0,\tau^{0}_{0})\), then the equilibrium \(P(u_{0},v_{0})\) is locally asymptotically stable.
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(ii)
If \(\tau>\tau^{0}_{0}\), then the equilibrium \(P(u_{0},v_{0})\) is unstable.
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(iii)
\(\tau=\tau^{j}_{0}\) (\(j\in\mathbb{N}_{0}\)) are Hopf bifurcation values of system (1.2), and the bifurcating periodic solutions are spatially homogeneous, which coincide with the periodic solutions of the corresponding functional differential equation system; when \(\tau\in\mathcal{D} / \{\tau^{k}_{0}:k\in\mathbb{N}_{0} \}\), system (1.2) also undergoes a Hopf bifurcation and the bifurcating periodic solutions are spatially non-homogeneous.
Remark 3.1
From Lemma 3.1, we can obtain that, for system (1.2), time delay induced Turing instability at \(E_{*}(P_{*},Z_{*})\) will not happen.
3.2 Stability and direction of Hopf bifurcation
In this section, we shall study the direction of Hopf bifurcation and the stability of the bifurcating periodic solution by applying the center manifold theorem and the normal form theorem of partial functional differential equations [36, 37]. We compute the following values (see the Appendix for details of the computation):
Theorem 3.2
For any critical value \(\tau^{j}_{n}\), we have:
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(i)
\(\mu_{2}\) determines the direction of the Hopf bifurcation: if \(\mu_{2}>0\) (resp. <0), then the Hopf bifurcation is forward (resp. backward), that is, the bifurcating periodic solutions exists for \(\mu>0\) (resp. \(\mu<0\)).
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(ii)
\(\beta_{2}\) determines the stability of the bifurcating periodic solutions on the center manifold: if \(\beta_{2}<0\) (resp. >0), then the bifurcating periodic solutions are orbitally asymptotically stable (resp. unstable). In particular, the stability of the bifurcating periodic solutions from the first critical value is the same as that on the center manifold.
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(iii)
\(T_{2}\) determines the period of bifurcating periodic solutions: if \(T_{2}>0\) (resp. \(T_{2}<0\)), then the period increases (resp. decreases).
4 Numerical simulations
In this section, we give some numerical simulations to suppose the theoretical findings of the present model and understand the complex dynamical behavior of the model clearly. Numerical study of this model is performed by MATLAB. Remarks (2.1) and (3.1) suggest that Turing instability at \(E_{*}\) will not happen, so we just fix \(d_{1} = d_{2} = 1\) and \(l = 1\). Fix other parameters
Then system (4.2) becomes
4.1 Effect of harvesting
For model (4.2), \(E_{*}(0.3118,0.3654)\) is the unique positive equilibrium, and \(a_{1}\approx-0.0503\), \(a_{2}\approx-0.3483\), \(b_{1}\approx0.2536\). Then (\(\mathrm{H}_{1}\)) holds and \(E_{*}(0.3118,0.3654)\) is locally asymptotically stable, shown in Fig. 1. In addition, \(a e r s/(a^{2} b e + a e r + r^{2}) - d - E>0\) and \(E_{1}(0.72,0)\) is unstable, shown in Fig. 2. From Fig. 1, we know that for model (4.2), \(P(x,t)\) and \(Z(x,t)\) converge to the unique positive equilibrium \(E_{*}(0.3118,0.3654)\) when \(t>1000\). From Fig. 2, we know that for model (4.2), \(P(x,t)\) and \(Z(x,t)\) are away from the equilibrium \(E_{1}(0.72,0)\) when the initial condition is near \(E_{1}(0.72,0)\). These coincide with our conclusion.
The numerical simulations of system (4.2) with initial condition near \(E_{*}\)
The numerical simulations of system (4.2) with initial condition \((0.7,0.01)\)
If we increase harvesting rate with \(E=0.03\), then \(a_{1}\approx -0.0924\), \(a_{2}\approx-0.3642\), \(b_{1}\approx0.1636\). Hence, (\(\mathrm{H}_{1}\)) holds and \(a e r s/(a^{2} b e + a e r + r^{2}) - d - E<0\). There are two positive equilibria \(E_{*}(0.3601,0.3559)\) (stable), \(E'_{*}(0.6942,0.0491)\) (unstable), and a boundary equilibrium \(E_{1}(0.72,0)\) (stable), shown in Fig. 3 and Fig. 4. When E crosses a certain critical value, say \(E^{*}=0.04\), the positive equilibrium \(E_{*}(P_{*},Z_{*})\) disappears, and \(E_{1}(r/a,0)\) is a unique stable equilibrium. Ecologically, it can be predicted that an increased harvesting rate of zooplankton may cause extinction of zooplankton, leaving phytoplankton alive.
The numerical simulations of system (4.2) with \(E=0.03\) and initial condition \((0.3,0.35)\)
The numerical simulations of system (4.2) with \(E=0.03\) and initial condition \((0.7,0.01)\)
4.2 Effect of time delay
Under parameters (4.1), we can obtain \(\tau_{0}^{0} \approx 0.5717\) and \(\omega_{0} \approx0.2951\). By Theorem 3.1(i), we know that if \(\tau\in[0,\tau^{0}_{0})\), then the equilibrium \(E_{*}(0.3118,0.3654)\) is locally asymptotically stable, shown in Fig. 5. By Theorem 3.1(iii), we conclude that the equilibrium \(E_{*}(P_{*},Z_{*})\) loses its stability and Hopf bifurcation occurs when τ crosses \(\tau^{0}_{0}\). By Theorem 3.2,
Hence, the direction of the bifurcation is forward, the bifurcating period solutions are locally asymptotically stable, and the period of bifurcating periodic solutions increases, shown in Fig. 6.
The numerical simulations of system (1.2) with \(\tau=0.5\)
The numerical simulations of system (1.2)
It indicates that there is a threshold limit of hunting delay below which the system does not have any excitable nature; and above it, system shows excitability in the form of oscillations.
4.3 Bifurcation diagram analysis
Fixing other parameters (4.1), varying the harvesting parameter and time-delay, we give a bifurcation diagram for time delay and constant harvesting, shown in Fig. 7. Appropriately increasing harvesting parameter E may stabilize the unstable equilibrium \(E_{*}\) (Fig. 7) of the delay system. Fixing other parameters (4.1), varying the conversion rate and time-delay, we give a bifurcation diagram for time delay and conversion rate, shown in Fig. 8. It suggests that increasing the conversion rate s may destabilize the stable equilibrium \(E_{*}\) of the delay system and cause phytoplankton and zooplankton oscillation. Fixing other parameters (4.1), varying half-saturation constant and time-delay, we give a bifurcation diagram for time delay and half-saturation constant, shown in Fig. 9. It suggests that increasing half-saturation constant b may stabilize the unstable equilibrium \(E_{*}\) of the delay system.
5 Conclusion
In this paper, we consider a diffusive phytoplankton–zooplankton model with time delay subject to the Neumann boundary condition. We study local asymptotic stability of equilibria and Hopf bifurcation at the positive equilibrium. By using the theory of normal form and center manifold, an algorithm for determining the direction and stability of Hopf bifurcation is derived.
We consider the effect of diffusion on the non-delay and delay phytoplankton–zooplankton models. For the non-delay model, we conclude that diffusion driven Turing instability cannot happen. For the delay model, we prove that \(\tau ^{0}_{0}\) is the minimum critical value, suggesting that Turing instability (that is, time delay induced Turing instability) cannot happen. The spatially non-homogeneous bifurcating periodic solutions induced by diffusion may occur. In addition, we studied the effect of delay on the partial differential system phytoplankton–zooplankton model. Similar to the conclusion in [28], it shows that there is a threshold limit of hunting delay below which the system does not have any excitable nature; and above it, system shows excitability in the form of oscillations. But when time delay \(\tau\in \mathcal{D} / \{\tau^{k}_{0}:k\in\mathbb{N}_{0} \}\), the system undergoes a Hopf bifurcation, and the bifurcating periodic solutions are spatially non-homogeneous.
Through numerical simulations, we show that appropriately increasing harvesting parameter E may be advantageous to coexistence of phytoplankton and zooplankton. But when the harvesting parameter E crosses some critical value, zooplankton may be extinct and induce phytoplankton population bloom. In [28], Sharma et al. conclude that increasing of conversion rate may cause planktonic bloom depicted through oscillation, by using numerical simulation on the non-delay ordinary differential system. For the delay partial differential system, we also get the same conclusion by analyzing bifurcation diagram for time delay and conversion rate. We also analyze bifurcation diagram for time delay and half-saturation constant, suggesting that half-saturation constant b can stabilize the unstable equilibrium \(E_{*}\) of the delay partial differential system. Through this study, we suggest that harvesting parameter, conversion rate, and half-saturation constant all can be used in controlling bloom of plankton population.
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Appendix
Appendix
Let \(\tilde{P}(x,t)=P(x,\tau t)-P_{*}\) and \(\tilde{Z}(x,t)=Z(x,\tau t)-Z_{*}\). For convenience, we drop the tilde. Then system (1.2) can be transformed into
for \(x \in(0, l\pi)\), and \(t>0\). Let
and τ̃ is the critical value \(\tau_{n}^{j}\). When \(\mu= 0\), system (1.2) undergoes a Hopf bifurcation at the equilibrium \((0, 0)\). Then (A.1) can be rewritten in an abstract form in the phase space \(\mathscr{C}_{1}:=C([-1,0],X)\)
where \(L_{\mu}(\phi)\) and \(F(\phi,\mu)\) are defined by
with
respectively, for \(\phi=(\phi_{1}, \phi_{2})^{T} \in\mathscr{C}_{1}\).
Consider the linear equation
According to the results in Sect. 2, we know that \(\varLambda_{n}:=\{i \omega_{n} \tilde{\tau},-i \omega_{n} \tilde{\tau}\}\) are characteristic values of system (A.5) and the linear functional differential equation
By Riesz representation theorem, there exists a \(2\times2\) matrix function \(\eta^{n}(\sigma, \tilde{\tau})\), \(-1\le\sigma\le0\), whose elements are of bounded variation functions such that
for \(\phi\in C([-1,0],\mathbb {R}^{2})\).
In fact, we can choose
where
Let \(A(\tilde{\tau})\) denote the infinitesimal generators of semigroup included by the solutions of Eq. (A.6) and \(A^{*}\) be the formal adjoint of \(A(\tilde{\tau })\) under the bilinear paring
for \(\phi\in C([-1,0],\mathbb {R}^{2})\), \(\psi\in C([-1,0],\mathbb {R}^{2})\). \(A(\tilde{\tau})\) has a pair of simple purely imaginary eigenvalues \(\pm i \omega_{n} \tilde {\tau}\), and they are also eigenvalues of \(A^{*}\). Let P and \(P^{*}\) be the center subspace, that is, the generalized eigenspace of \(A(\tilde{\tau})\) and \(A^{*}\) associated with \(\varLambda_{n}\), respectively. Then \(P^{*}\) is the adjoint space of P and \(\operatorname{dim}P=\operatorname{dim}P^{*}=2\).
It can be verified that \(p_{1}(\theta)=(1,\xi)^{T}e^{i\omega_{n} \tilde{\tau} \sigma}\) (\(\sigma \in[-1,0]\)), \(p_{2}(\sigma)=\overline{p_{1}(\sigma)}\) is a basis of \(A(\tilde{\tau})\) with \(\varLambda_{n}\) and \(q_{1}(r)=(1,\eta)e^{-i\omega_{n} \tilde{\tau} r}\) (\(r \in[0,1]\)), \(q_{2}(r)=\overline{q_{1}(r)}\) is a basis of \(A^{*}\) with \(\varLambda_{n}\), where
Let \(\varPhi=(\varPhi_{1},\varPhi_{2})\) and \(\varPsi^{*}=(\varPsi^{*}_{1},\varPsi^{*}_{2})^{T}\) with
for \(\theta\in[-1,0]\), and
for \(r \in[0,1]\). Then we can compute by (A.9)
Define and construct a new basis Ψ for \(P^{*}\) by
Then \((\varPsi,\varPhi)=I_{2}\). In addition, define \(f_{n}:=(\beta^{1}_{n},\beta^{2}_{n})\), where
We also define
Thus the center subspace of linear equation (A.5) is given by \(P_{CN} \mathscr{C}_{1} \oplus P_{S} \mathscr{C}_{1}\) and \(P_{S} \mathscr {C}_{1}\) denotes the complement subspace of \(P_{CN} \mathscr{C}_{1}\) in \(\mathscr{C}_{1}\),
for \(u=(u_{1},u_{2})\), \(v=(v_{1},v_{2})\), \(u,v\in X\) and \(\langle \phi,f_{0}\rangle=(\langle\phi ,f^{1}_{0}\rangle, \langle\phi,f^{2}_{0}\rangle)^{T}\).
Let \(A_{\tilde{\tau}}\) denote the infinitesimal generator of an analytic semigroup induced by the linear system (A.5), and Eq. (A.1) can be rewritten as the following abstract form:
where
By the decomposition of \(\mathscr{C}_{1}\), the solution above can be written as
where
and
In particular, the solution of (A.2) on the center manifold is given by
Let \(z=x_{1}-i x_{2}\), and notice that \(p_{1}=\varPhi_{1}+i\varPhi_{2}\). Then we have
and
Hence, Eq. (A.13) can be transformed into
where
From [37], z satisfies
where
Let
from Eqs. (A.14) and (A.17), we have
and
with
Hence,
with
and
Denote
Notice that
and we have
Then by (A.16), (A.18), and (A.26), we have \(g_{20}=g_{11}=g_{02}=0\), for \(n=1,2,3,\ldots \) . If \(n=0\), we have the following quantities:
And for \(n\in\mathbb{N}_{0}\), \(g_{21}=\tilde{\tau}( \gamma_{1} \kappa _{1} +\gamma_{2} \kappa_{2})\).
Now, a complete description for \(g_{21}\) depends on the algorithm for \(W_{20}(0)\) and \(W_{11}(0)\), which we shall compute.
From [37], we have
and \(W(z,\overline{z})\) satisfies
where
Hence, we have
that is,
Therefore by (A.27), for \(\theta\in[-1,0)\),
and
where
By the definition of \(A_{\tilde{\tau}}\) and (A.28), we have
That is,
where
Using the definition of \(A_{\tilde{\tau}}\) and (A.28), we have that, for \(-1\le\theta<0\),
As
and
we have
That is,
where
Similarly, from (A.29), we have
That is,
Similar to the procedure of computing \(W_{20}\), we have
where
Thus, we can compute the following quantities which determine the direction and stability of bifurcating periodic orbits:
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Li, Y., Liu, H., Yang, R. et al. Dynamics in a diffusive phytoplankton–zooplankton system with time delay and harvesting. Adv Differ Equ 2019, 79 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13662-019-2002-y
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