Author:
Zhao Shengnan, ,Yuan Sanling
Abstract
<abstract><p>As the most diverse, productive but vulnerable marine habitats in the world, coral reefs are easily affected by the ubiquitous environmental fluctuations, which could change the population dynamics and induce phase shifts of the ecosystem. In this paper, we consider a coral reef benthic system, where macroalgae, corals and algal turfs compete for the available space on a given region of the seabed with grazing intensity and immigrated macroalgae in both deterministic and stochastic environments. For the deterministic system, we analyze the existence and stability of equilibria, as well as the existence of bifurcations. For the stochastic system, sufficient conditions for the existence of the unique ergodic stationary distribution as well as the extinction of corals are obtained, by choosing suitable Lyapunov functions. Moreover, for the scenario that the system exhibits bistability between a macroalgal-coral coexistence equilibrium and a coral-free equilibrium in the absence of environmental fluctuation, we further investigate the irreversible noise-induced transition from macroalgal-coral coexistence to coral extirpation, and numerically estimate the critical values of noise intensity for the occurrence of such transition with the aids of the technique of stochastic sensitivity functions.</p></abstract>
Publisher
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
Subject
Applied Mathematics,Computational Mathematics,General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,Modeling and Simulation,General Medicine
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