Extinction and blow-up phenomena in a non-linear gender structured population model

Abstract

In this article we consider a gender structured model in population dynamics. We assume that the fertility rate depends upon the weighted population of males instead of total population of males. The proportion of males in the population is determined by fixed environmental or social conditions. Here we prove an existence and uniqueness result for a non-trivial steady state. If the initial age distribution is uniformly below the non-trivial steady state then we show that the total population goes extinct in infinite time. On the other hand, if we take the initial age distribution to be uniformly above the steady state then the total population blows up exponentially with time.