Dynamics caused by the mean-reverting Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process in a stochastic predator–prey model with stage structure

Abstract

There are many species that go through different life stages in nature, they have different ecological characteristics in different stages, besides, stochastic variation exists in the natural environment. Based on this biological phenomenon, we develop and investigate dynamics in a predator–prey system with stage structure and the mean-reverting Ornstein–Uhlenbeck processes. We prove that this system satisfies the existence and uniqueness of globally positive equilibrium. The sufficient conditions for the existence of a stationary Markov process in stochastic system are attained. We deal with explicit expression and the existence of density function of the system which make a great contribution to biological intrinsic essence for the system. In addition, the sufficient criteria for extinction of the predator populations is derived. Finally, numerical simulations are furnished to illustrate the analysis results.