Abstract
A discrete-time Leslie model with Hassell growth function for two
generations is investigated by qualitative analysis and numerical
simulation. Local stability analysis of the system is carried out. Many
forms of complex dynamics are observed, including chaotic bands with
periodic windows, flip bifurcations, and Hopf bifurcations, attractor
crises, and non-unique dynamics (meaning that several attractors
coexist). Numerical simulation results not only show the consistence
with the theoretical analysis but also display the new and interesting
dynamical behaviors, including different periodic orbits in chaotic
regions, attracting invariant circle, period-doubling bifurcations from
stable equilibriums leading to chaos, interior crisis and boundary
crisis. The largest Lyapunov exponents are numerically computed to
confirm further the complexity of these dynamic behaviors. The analysis
and results in this paper are interesting in mathematics and biology.