Synchronization of Chaos in a Food Web in Ecological Systems

The three-species food web model proposed and investigated by Gakkhar and Naji is known to have chaotic behaviour for a choice of parameters. An attempt has been made to synchronize the chaos in the model using bidirectional coupling. Numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the analytical results. Numerical results show that for higher value of coupling strength, chaotic synchronization is achieved. Chaos can be controlled to achieve stable synchronization in natural systems.

• Anuraj Singh
• Sunita Gakkhar

• Lyapunov Exponent
• Bidirectional Coupling
• ChaosSynchronization
• Synchronization Manifold

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