Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Volume 2006 (2006), Article ID 37264, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/DDNS/2006/37264
A short proof of the Cushing-Henson conjecture
Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Science, Knez Mihailova 35/I, Beograd 11000, Serbia
Received 8 June 2006; Revised 21 September 2006; Accepted 27 September 2006
Copyright © 2006 Stevo Stević. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
We give a short proof of the Cushing-Henson conjecture
concerning Beverton-Holt difference equation, which is important in theoretical
ecology. The main result shows that a periodic environment is
always deleterious for populations modeled by the Beverton-Holt difference
equation.