A model for voles interference in cultivated orchards.

We consider a dynamical system involving seven populations to model the presence of voles in a cultivated orchard. The plant population is stratified by age (three groups) and by health status (being damaged or not). The last equation models the voles with a modified logistic equation with Allee effect, where the modification takes into account the disturbance provided by the human activity on the orchard. Both an analytical investigation and numerical simulations on a case study are presented. The latter support the observed differences in the literature, in terms of number of voles, between cultivated and uncultivated fields. Copyright © 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Alberto Viscardi, Sandro Bertolino, Ezio Venturino. A model for voles interference in cultivated orchards. Mathematical biosciences. 2023 Dec;366:109107

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PMID: 37944796

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