Dynamics of a predator-prey model with nonlinear incidence rate, Crowley-Martin type functional response and disease in prey population

Abstract

Abstract In this paper, a delayed predator-prey model has been developed. Here, on the basis of infectious disease, the prey population has been divided into two sub-populations such as (i) susceptible prey and (ii) infected prey population. It is also assumed that a predator may consume both susceptible prey as well as infected prey. Also here, the Crowley-Martin type functional form has been taken to consume the prey (both susceptible and infected) population by the predator. It also considers two types of time delays in this model, (i) one is disease transmission delay when susceptible prey moves to infected prey stage and (ii) other is predator maturation delay. As the predator consumes both susceptible and infected prey, so we have incorporated the fact in this model that disease in the prey species also effect on predator population growth. Here, positivity and boundedness of solutions of our proposed model have been discussed. Then calculating different equilibrium points, the stability of the system have been discussed around those. In this paper, the Hopf bifurcation analysis has been done for non-delayed system with respect to the crowding coefficient. Finally, some numerical simulations have been presented to validate our theoretical findings.