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ASYMPTOTICBEHAVIOROFACLASSOFNONLINEAR DIFFERENCEEQUATIONS STEVOSTEVIC′ Received7April2006;Accepted28May2006 MotivatedbysomeresultsofL.Berg(2002),inthispaperwe?ndthesecondmemberin theasymptoticdevelopmentofsomeofthepositivesolutionsofaclassofdi?erenceequa- tionsofsecondandthirdorders.Themainresultinthispaperpartially solvesanopen problem byS.Stevi′c(2003), anditisapplied tosome classes ofmathematical biology models, for example, generalized Beverton-Holt stock recruitment model, ?our beetle populationmodel,mosquitopopulationequations,anddiscretedelaylogisticdi?erence equation. Copyright?2006StevoStevi′c.Thisisanopenaccessarticledistributed undertheCre- ativeCommons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproductioninanymedium,providedtheoriginalworkisproperlycited. 1.Introduction Recentlytherehasbeenagreatinterestinstudying nonlinear di?erenceequations and systems (cf. [1–36] and the references therein). One ofthe reasons for this isaneces- sityforsometechniques whichcanbeusedininvestigating equations arising inmath- ematical models describing real-life situations inpopulation biology,economy,proba- bility theory,genetics, psychology, sociology, and soforth. Suchequations also appear naturally as discrete analogues of di?erential equations which model various biologi- cal and economical systems (see, e.g, [7, 13, 16–18, 20, 24, 28, 29] and the references therein). Therearesequencesde?nedbyrecurrenceformulaesuchthatweknowtheirasymp- toticbehavior,see,forexample,[11,12,14,15,19,21,23,29,30,32,33,36],thatis,we knowthe?rstmemberintheirasymptoticbehavior. Thefollowing theorem wasestablished in[21,Problem I,page 174]. Theproofap- pearingthereisattributedtoJacobsthal. Theorem1.1. Let f :(0,α)→(0,α),whereα0,beacontinuous function suchthat0 f(x)x forevery x∈(0,α)and f(x)=x?axk+bxk +p+ ( k+p),when →+0 ,where o x x HindawiPublishingCorporation DiscreteDynamicsinNatureandSociety Volume2006,ArticleID47156,Pages1–