An almost periodic model to describe phenology mismatches in mutualistic interactions

We study seasonal mutualistic interactions between two species. The model takes into account the climate-mediated shifts that can change the phenologies of mutualistic species. We show conditions on the parameters of the model that guarantee global stability. Numerical simulations are performed for...

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Published in:Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften 2022-11, Vol.141 (4), p.375-388
Main Authors: Homero, Díaz-Marín, Osvaldo, Osuna, Geiser, Villavicencio-Pulido
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bioinformatics
Biology
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Births
Climate change
Complex Systems
Evolutionary Biology
Life Sciences
Mathematical and Computational Biology
Mutualism
Ordinary differential equations
Original Article
Per capita
Phenology
Philosophy of Biology
Pollinators
Population density
Seasonal variations
Theoretical Ecology/Statistics
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Summary:We study seasonal mutualistic interactions between two species. The model takes into account the climate-mediated shifts that can change the phenologies of mutualistic species. We show conditions on the parameters of the model that guarantee global stability. Numerical simulations are performed for different scenarios associated with seasonal changes. They show that if periodic time-dependence is used to approximate an almost periodic one, then not only the densities of the mutualistic populations but also the overlapping intervals describing the interval of co-occurrence can be either underestimated or overestimated. Therefore, using an almost periodic model can be more adequate to design conservation strategies for asynchronous phenology.
ISSN:1431-7613
1611-7530
DOI:10.1007/s12064-022-00380-y