Additional-food predator explosion conjecture for general predator-pest models

Consider the general predator-pest model

dxdt=F(x,y;ξ),dydt=G(x,y;ξ),\frac{dx}{dt}=F(x,y;\xi),\qquad \frac{dy}{dt}=G(x,y;\xi),

where xx is the pest population, yy is the predator population, ξ\xi is the quantity of additional food, and ff is a pest-dependent functional response. Additional-food predator explosion conjecture. If ξ>ξcritical\xi>\xi_{critical}, then the predator population yy blows up in infinite time for any pest-dependent functional response ff. The claim proposes that sufficiently large additional food can hinder biological control by causing unbounded predator growth and associated non-target effects; its status is not established by the supplied text.

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Rana D. Parshad, Sureni Wickramsooriya, Kwadwo Antwi-Fordjour and Aniket Banerjee, “Additional food causes predator "explosion" – unless the predators compete”, arXiv:2208.00153 (2022).

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