Dynamic behaviors of a discrete-time predator–prey bioeconomic system

Abstract Bifurcation and chaotic behavior of a discrete-time singular bioeconomic system are investigated. First, the traditional catch equation is modified after accounting for the handling time of the catch in a singular bioeconomic system. To discover the richer dynamics compared with the continuous form, the proposed system is considered difference scheme. Specially, the tangent space local parameterization condensed method for DAEs is generalized. The new local parameterization method is sufficiently general to be applicable to this type of discrete singular system. Also the dynamic behaviors of the system are investigated, by using normal form theory, center manifold theorem and bifurcation theory, it is shown that the system undergoes a Neimark–Sacker bifurcation and a flip bifurcation, on varying step-size in some range. In addition, numerical simulations are presented not only to illustrate our results with the theoretical analysis, but also to exhibit the complex dynamical behaviors