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Suppose that the population dynamics of a species obeys a modified version of the logistic differential equation having the following form: where Apply the local stability criterion to the equilibrium What do you think your answer means about the stability of this equilibrium?
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1 of 2The derivative of the differential equation with respect to is
Now, .
is locally stable if , and is unstable if . Here which means that it cannot be said whether is locally stable equilibrium or not.
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