Awakened Oscillations in Coupled Consumer-Resource Pairs
Figure 3
Hysteresis in the two-consumer, two-resource system (1a)–(1d). It takes place in the case of strong coupling . (a) The resource-supply parametric plane . Consumer 1 completely dominates below the line , whereas consumer 2—above the line . Both boundary steady states are stable in the region of bistability confined by the two aforementioned lines and marked off by gray, with the dominance of either consumer being a matter of path-dependency. (b) Equilibrium level of consumer 1 as a function of the resource supply. Numerical values of the coupling strengths are chosen to be and .
