Scenarios Leading to Chaos in a Forced Lotka-Volterra Model

A predator·prey ecosystem is proposed to investigate roads to chaos in a differential system. In this model, Malthusian rate of prey is driven by a periodic external force. Feigenbaum scenarios and a torus to chaos with frequency locking as 1 ... torus'" 5'" chaos'" 4'" chaos'" 3'" chaos'" 5'" chaos'" 4'" 2 are obser· ved numerically and their scaling properties and multi· basins are investigated.