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Feeding Ecology of Sillago japonica in an Eelgrass (Zostera marina) Bed

  • Kwak Seok Nam;Baeck Gun Wook;Huh Sung-Hoi
    • Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.84-89
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    • 2004
  • Feeding habits of Sillago japonica collected from in an eelgrass (Zostera marina) bed in Jindong Bay, Korea were studied. S. japonica was a carnivore which consumed mainly gammarid amphipods, polychaetes, bivalves, caridean shrimps and crabs. Its diets also included a small amount of fishes, copepods and caprellid amphipods. The diet of S. japonica underwent significant size-related changes; small individuals (<5cm SL) fed mainly on gammarid amphipods and crab larvae, while proportion of polychaetes and bivalves increased with increasing fish size and gammarid amphipods were also important prey for medium size individuals (5.1-9.9cm SL). The large individuals (>10cm SL) ate polychaetes, caridean shrimps and crabs. The dietary breadth of S. japonica were varied with size. The diet of S. japonica also underwent seasonal changes that could be related to differences in prey availability; gammarid amphipods were mainly consumed in spring and polychaetes in summer.

Univector Field Method based Multi-Agent Navigation for Pursuit Problem

  • Viet, Hoang Huu;An, Sang-Hyeok;Chung, Tae-Choong
    • International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.86-93
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    • 2012
  • This paper presents a new approach to solve the pursuit problem based on a univector field method. In our proposed method, a set of eight agents works together instantaneously to find suitable moving directions and follow the univector field to pursue and capture a prey agent by surrounding it from eight directions in an infinite grid-world. In addition, a set of strategies is proposed to make the pursuit problem more realistic in the real world environment. This is a general approach, and it can be extended for an environment that contains static or moving obstacles. Experimental results show that our proposed algorithm is effective for the pursuit problem.

Multi-Agent Control Strategy using Reinforcement Leaning (강화학습을 이용한 다중 에이전트 제어 전략)

  • 이형일
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.6 no.5
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    • pp.937-944
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    • 2003
  • The most important problems in the multi-agent system are to accomplish a gnat through the efficient coordination of several agents and to prevent collision with other agents. In this paper, we propose a new control strategy for succeeding the goal of a prey pursuit problem efficiently Our control method uses reinforcement learning to control the multi-agent system and consider the distance as well as the space relationship among the agents in the state space of the prey pursuit problem.

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POSITIVE SOLUTIONS OF A REACTION-DIFFUSION SYSTEM WITH DIRICHLET BOUNDARY CONDITION

  • Ma, Zhan-Ping;Yao, Shao-Wen
    • Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.57 no.3
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    • pp.677-690
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    • 2020
  • In this article, we study a reaction-diffusion system with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions, which describing a three-species food chain model. Under some conditions, the predator-prey subsystem (u1 ≡ 0) has a unique positive solution (${\bar{u_2}}$, ${\bar{u_3}}$). By using the birth rate of the prey r1 as a bifurcation parameter, a connected set of positive solutions of our system bifurcating from semi-trivial solution set (r1, (0, ${\bar{u_2}}$, ${\bar{u_3}}$)) is obtained. Results are obtained by the use of degree theory in cones and sub and super solution techniques.

ANALYSIS OF A STAGE-STRUCTURED PREDATOR-PREY SYSTEM WITH IMPULSIVE PERTURBATIONS AND TIME DELAYS

  • Song, Xinyu;Li, Senlin;Li, An
    • Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.46 no.1
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    • pp.71-82
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, a stage-structured predator-prey system with impulsive perturbations and time delays is presented to investigate the ecological problem of how a pest population and natural enemy population can coexist. Sufficient conditions are obtained using a discrete dynamical system determined by a stroboscopic map, which guarantee that a 'predator-extinction' periodic solution is globally attractive. When the impulsive period is longer than some time threshold or the impulsive harvesting rate is below a control threshold, the system is permanent. Our results provide some reasonable suggestions for pest management.

[ W12 ]-ESTIMATES ON THE PREY-PREDATOR SYSTEMS WITH CROSS-DIFFUSIONS AND FUNCTIONAL RESPONSES

  • Shim, Seong-A
    • Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.211-227
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    • 2008
  • As a mathematical model proposed to understand the behaviors of interacting species, cross-diffusion systems with functional responses of prey-predator type are considered. In order to obtain $W^{1_2}$-estimates of the solutions, we make use of several forms of calculus inequalities and embedding theorems. We consider the quasilinear parabolic systems with the cross-diffusion terms, and without the self-diffusion terms because of the simplicity of computations. As the main result we derive the uniform $W^{1_2}$-bound of the solutions and obtain the global existence in time.

PERIODIC SOLUTIONS FOR DISCRETE ONE-PREDATOR TWO-PREY SYSTEM WITH THE MODIFIED LESLIE-GOWER FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE

  • Shi, Xiangyun;Zhou, Xueyong;Song, Xinyu
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.27 no.3_4
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    • pp.639-651
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, we study a discrete Leslie-Gower one-predator two-prey model. By using the method of coincidence degree and some techniques, we obtain the existence of at least one positive periodic solution of the system. By linalization of the model at positive periodic solution and construction of Lyapunov function, sufficient conditions are obtained to ensure the global stability of the positive periodic solution. Numerical simulations are carried out to explain the analytical findings.

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Feeding Habits of Chub Mackerel (Scomber japonicus) in the South Sea of Korea (남해에 출현하는 고등어 (Scomber japonicus)의 식성)

  • Yoon, Seong-Jong;Kim, Dae-Hyun;Baeck, Gun-Wook;Kim, Jae-Won
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.41 no.1
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    • pp.26-31
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    • 2008
  • The feeding habits of chub mackerel (Scomber japonicus) were studied based on an examination of the stomach contents of 512 specimens collected between November 2005 and October 2006 in the South Sea of Korea. The specimens ranged in fork length (FL) from 23.4-37.5 cm. Chub mackerel is a piscivore and consumes mainly Teleosts such as Engraulis japonicus. Its diet also includes amphipods, crabs, Euphausia, chaetognaths and shrimp. Smaller individuals (<26 cm FL) consume mainly crabs. The proportion of these prey items decreases with increasing fish size, and this decrease paralleles the increased consumption of fish. The prey size increases with S. japonicus size.

TURING INSTABILITY IN A PREDATOR-PREY MODEL IN PATCHY SPACE WITH SELF AND CROSS DIFFUSION

  • Aly, Shaban
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.129-138
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    • 2013
  • A spatio-temporal models as systems of ODE which describe two-species Beddington - DeAngelis type predator-prey system living in a habitat of two identical patches linked by migration is investigated. It is assumed in the model that the per capita migration rate of each species is influenced not only by its own but also by the other one's density, i.e. there is cross diffusion present. We show that a standard (self-diffusion) system may be either stable or unstable, a cross-diffusion response can stabilize an unstable standard system and destabilize a stable standard system. For the diffusively stable model, numerical studies show that at a critical value of the bifurcation parameter the system undergoes a Turing bifurcation and the cross migration response is an important factor that should not be ignored when pattern emerges.

Note on the Prey Items of Marine Cladocerans (해산지각류의 먹이에 관한 보고)

  • KIM, SE-WHA;YOON, YANG-HO;ONBE, TAKASHI
    • 한국해양학회지
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.69-71
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    • 1993
  • Food items of the five species of marine cladocerans were reported to be largely confined to centric diatoms. Reexamination of the prey items, however, revealed that flagellar organisms were also well fed by cladocerans. This additional finding suggests that marine cladocerans might extend their food items to weakly motile flagellates e.g., Prorocentrum micans, Protoperidinium sp. and unidentified flagellates.

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