Stability and bifurcation analysis in a delay-induced predator-prey model with Michaelis-Menten type predator harvesting

Abstract

The present paper considers a delay-induced predator-prey model with Michaelis-Menten type predator harvesting. The existence of the nontrivial positive equilibria is discussed, and some sufficient conditions for locally asymptotically stability of one of the positive equilibria are developed. Meanwhile, the existence of Hopf bifurcation is discussed by choosing time delays as the bifurcation parameters. Furthermore, the direction of Hopf bifurcation and the stability of the bifurcated periodic solutions are determined by the normal form theory and the center manifold theorem for functional differential equations. Finally, some numerical simulations are carried out to support the analytical results.