A One-Sex Population Dynamics Model with Discrete Set of Offsprings and Child Care

• Published in: Nonlinear analysis (Vilnius, Lithuania) Vol. 13; no. 4
• Main Author: V. Skakauskas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Vilnius University Press 20.10.2008
• Subjects: age–structured population; child care; population dynamics
• ISSN: 1392-5113; 2335-8963
• DOI: 10.15388/NA.2008.13.4.14556

We present a one-sex age-structured population dynamics deterministic model with a discrete set of offsprings, child care, environmental pressure, and spatial migration. All individuals have pre-reproductive, reproductive, and post-reproductive age intervals. Individuals of reproductive age are divided into fertile single and taking child care groups. All individuals of pre-reproductive age are divided into young (under maternal care) and juvenile (offspring who can live without maternal care) classes. It is assumed that all young offsprings move together with their mother and that after the death of mother all her young offsprings are killed. The model consists of integro-partial differential equations subject to the conditions of the integral type. Number of these equations depends on a biologically possible maximal newborns number of the same generation produced by an individual. The existence and uniqueness theorem is proved, separable solutions are studied, and the long time behavior is examined for the solution with general type of initial distributions in the case of non-dispersing population. Separable and more general (nonseparable) solutions, their large time behavior, and steady-state solutions are studied for the population with spatial dispersal, too.