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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society Volume 2011, Article ID 380279, 19 pages doi:10.1155/2011/380279 Research Article Dynamics of a Nonautonomous Leslie-Gower Type Food Chain Model with Delays Hongying Lu and Weiguo Wang School of Mathematics and Quantitative Economics, Dongbei University of Finance Economics, Dalian, Liaoning 116025, China Correspondence should be addressed to Hongying Lu, hongyinglu543@163.com Received 11 October 2010; Accepted 26 January 2011 Academic Editor: M. De la Sen Copyright q 2011 H. Lu and W. Wang. 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. A nonautonomous Leslie-Gower type food chain model with time delays is investigated. It is proved the general nonautonomous system is permanent and globally asymptotically stable under some appropriate conditions. Furthermore, if the system is periodic one, some sufficient conditions are established, which guarantee the existence, uniqueness, and global asymptotic stability of a positive periodic solution of the system. The conditions for the permanence, global stability of system, and the existence, uniqueness of positive periodic solution depend on delays; so, time delays are profitless. 1. Introduction Among the relationships between the species living in the same outer environment, the predator-prey theory plays an important and fundamental role. The dynamic relationship between predators and their preys has long been and will continue to be one of the dominant themes in both ecology and mathematical ecology due to its universal existence and importance 1. Food-chain predator-prey