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Non Standard Finite Difference Scheme for Mutualistic Interaction Description

Populations and Evolution 2015-01-05 v2 Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems

Abstract

One of the more interesting themes of the mathematical ecology is the description of the mutualistic interaction between two interacting species. Based on continuous-time model developed by Holland and DeAngelis 2009 for consumer-resource mutualism description, this work deals with the application of the Mickens Non Standard Finite Difference method to transform the continuous-time scheme into a discrete-time one. It has been proved that the Mickens scheme is dynamically consistent with the original one regardless of the step-sizes used in numerical simulations, in opposition of the forward Euler method that shows numerical instabilities when the step size overcomes a critical value.

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@article{arxiv.1201.0535,
  title  = {Non Standard Finite Difference Scheme for Mutualistic Interaction Description},
  author = {Gianluca Gabbriellini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.0535},
  year   = {2015}
}

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12 pages, 4 figures

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