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Exchange of equilibria in two species Lotka-Volterra competition models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

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Abstract

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Sufficient conditions are obtained for the existence of a unique asymptotically stable periodic solution for the Lotka-Volterra two species competition system of equations when the intrinsic growth rates are periodic functions of time.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1982

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