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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society Volume 2010, Article ID 534947, 15 pages doi:10.1155/2010/534947 Research Article Dynamics of a Higher-Order Nonlinear Difference Equation Guo-Mei Tang,1 Lin-Xia Hu,2 and Xiu-Mei Jia3 1 School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Northwest University for Nationalities, Lanzhou, Gansu 730030, China 2 Department of Mathematics, Tianshui Normal University, Tianshui, Gansu 741001, China 3 Department of Mathematics, Hexi University, Zhangye, Gansu 734000, China Correspondence should be addressed to Guo-Mei Tang, jstgm@ Received 20 April 2010; Accepted 18 July 2010 Academic Editor: Leonid Berezansky Copyright q 2010 Guo-Mei Tang et al. 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. We consider the higher-order nonlinear difference equation x α x /A Bx x , n1 n n n−k n 0, 1, . . ., where parameters are positive real numbers and initial conditions x−k, . . . , x0 are nonnegative real numbers, k ≥ 2. We investigate the periodic character, the invariant intervals, and the global asymptotic stability of all positive solutions of the abovementioned equation. We show that the unique equilibrium of the equation is globally asymptotically stable under certain conditions. 1. Introduction and Preliminaries In this paper, we will investigate the global behavior of solutions of the following nonlinear difference equation: α xn xn1