Impact of Delay on Predator-Prey Models

Abstract: Mathematical modeling based on time-delay differential equations is an important tool to study the role of delay in biological systems and to evaluate its impact on the asymptotic behavior of their dynamics. Delays are indeed found in many biological, physical, and engineering systems and are a consequence of the limited speed at which physiological, chemical, or biological processes are transmitted from one place to another. Since real biological systems are always subject to perturbations that are not fully understood or cannot be explicitly modeled, stochastic delay differential systems (SDDEs) provide a more realistic approximation to these models. In this work, we study the predator-prey system considering three time delay models: one deterministic and two types of stochastic models. Our numerical results show relevant differences in their respective asymptotic behaviors.