The effects of temporal delays in a model for a food-limited, diffusing population

Abstract

We consider an adaptation of the well-known logistic equation in mathematical ecology in which the population is assumed to diffuse and for which the average growth rate is a function of some specified delayed argument. Using a combination of analytical and numerical techniques, we investigate the existence, uniqueness, and asymptotic stability of the nonnegative steady states of this equation. © 2001 Academic Press.