Biodiversity and vulnerability in a 3D mutualistic system

In this paper we study a three dimensional mutualistic model of two plants in competition and a pollinator with cooperative relation with plants. We compare the dynamical properties of this system with the associated one under absence of the pollinator. We observe how cooperation is a common fact to...

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Autores: Guerrero Suárez, Giovanny Fabián, Langa Rosado, José Antonio, Suárez Fernández, Antonio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/40115
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11441/40115
https://doi.org/10.3934/dcds.2014.34.4107
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:3D mutualistic model
Increasing biodiversity
Vulnerability
Permanence
Global stability
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Sumario:In this paper we study a three dimensional mutualistic model of two plants in competition and a pollinator with cooperative relation with plants. We compare the dynamical properties of this system with the associated one under absence of the pollinator. We observe how cooperation is a common fact to increase biodiversity, which it is known that, generically, holds for general mutualistic dynamical systems in Ecology as introduced in [4]. We also give mathematical evidence on how a cooperative species induces an increased biodiversity, even if the species is push to extinction. For this fact, we propose a necessary change in the model formulation which could explain this kind of phenomenon.