title: Role of horizontal incidence in the occurrence and control of chaos in an eco-epidemiological system.
abstract: A predator-prey model with disease in the prey population is proposed and analysed. The mode of disease transmission plays an important role in such dynamics. Keeping this factor in mind, we observe the dynamics of such a system for simple mass action incidence and standard incidence. Our observations indicate that the phenomenon of rarity or non-occurrence of chaos in our proposed model is well defined if the mode of disease transmission follows standard incidence. Moreover, using the method of Latin hypercube sampling, we show that the region of stability increases if the disease transmission follows the standard incidence law.
authors.affiliation: Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 203, B. T. Road, Kolkata 700108, India.
authors.forename: Samrat
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chatterjee
authors.forename: Kusumika
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kundu
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chattopadhyay
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000635:transmission; D017753:Ecosystem; D020387:Food Chain; D015994:Incidence; D008954:Models, Biological; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011336:Probability; D016008:Statistical Distributions