Abstract
First we deal with a brief introduction of the autotroph-herbivore model system along with deterministic analysis of local stability, bifurcation behavior, and persistence of the populations. The second part consists of the stochastic formulation of the model system to incorporate the effect of environmental fluctuation and then analysis of nonequilibrium fluctuation. Stochastic stability criteria of the model system under the influence of random environmental fluctuation are obtained through the convergence conditions of second-order moments.