Global dynamics of a diffusive phytoplankton-zooplankton model with toxic substances effect and delay.

Abstract

This paper examines a diffusive toxic-producing plankton system with delay. We first show the global attractivity of the positive equilibrium of the system without time-delay. We further consider the effect of delay on asymptotic behavior of the positive equilibrium: when the system undergoes Hopf bifurcation at some points of delay by the normal form and center manifold theory for partial functional differential equations. Global existence of periodic solutions is established by applying the global Hopf bifurcation theory.