Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Volume 2007 (2007), Article ID 54861, 15 pages
doi:10.1155/2007/54861
Research Article

Permanence and Stability of an Age-Structured Prey-Predator System with Delays

Liming Cai,1,2 Xuezhi Li,1 Xinyu Song,1 and Jingyuan Yu2

1College of Mathematics and Information Science, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang 464000, Henan, China
2Beijing Institutes of Information and Control, Beijing 100037, China

Received 15 March 2007; Accepted 30 April 2007

Copyright © 2007 Liming Cai et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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