Separable solutions to a brood-parasite dynamics model

Authors : Vladas Skakauskas

Pages : 10-16

Doi:10.32323/ujma.376483

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Publication Date : 2018-03-11

Article Type : Research

Abstract :Common Cuckoo is a brood-parasite which lays its egg in the nest of other bird species and use them to raise its young. We present a Common Cuckoo and a host bird interaction deterministic model taking into account maternal care of offspring. The model consists of a coupled system of integro-partial differential equations subject to the conditions of the integral type. Number of equations in the system depends on a biologically possible maximal number of eggs of the same clutch laid by a host bird. Separable solutions of this model are studied.
Keywords : separable solutions, age-structured population, Differential equations, child care, brood parasites