Local and Global Dynamics of a Ratio-Dependent Holling-Tanner Predator-Prey Model with Strong Allee Effect

In this paper, the impact of the strong Allee effect and ratio-dependent Holling-Tanner functional response on the dynamical behaviors of a predator-prey system is investigated. First, the positivity and boundedness of solutions of the system are proved. Then, stability and bifurcation analysis on equilibria is provided, with explicit conditions obtained for Hopf bifurcation. Moreover, global dynamics of the system is discussed. In particular, the degenerate singular point at the origin is proved to be globally asymptotically stable under various conditions. Further, a detailed bifurcation analysis is presented to show that the system undergoes a codimension-1 Hopf bifurcation and a codimension-2 cusp Bogdanov-Takens bifurcation. Simulations are given to illustrate the theoretical predictions. The results obtained in this paper indicate that the strong Allee effect and proportional dependence coefficient have significant impact on the fundamental change of predator-prey dynamics and the species persistence.