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Nicholson’s blowflies differential equations revisited: main results and open problems. (English) Zbl 1193.34149
Summary: This review covers permanence, oscillation, local and global stability of solutions for Nicholson’s blowflies differential equation. Some generalizations, including the most recent results for equations with a distributed delay and models with periodic coefficients, are considered.

MSC:
 34K20 Stability theory of functional-differential equations 92D25 Population dynamics (general)
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