A general framework for age-structured predator-prey systems is introduced. Individualsare distinguished into two classes, juveniles and adults, and several possibleinteractions are considered. The initial system of partial differential equations isreduced to a system of (neutral) delay differential equations with one or two delays.Thanks to this approach, physically correct models for predator-prey with delay areprovided. Previous models are considered and analysed in view of the above results. ARosenzweig-MacArthur model with delay is presented as an example.

In this paper we discuss the existence of mild and classical solutions for a class of abstract non-autonomous neutral functional differential equations. An application to partial neutral differential equations is considered.

In this paper we discuss the existence of solutions for a class of abstract degenerate neutral functional differential equations. Some applications to partial differential equations are considered.

The concept of essential map and topological transversality due to A. Granas is extended to multi-valued maps in locally convex spaces and it is next applied to prove the solvability of boundary value problems for certain neutral functional differential equations. In order to achieve a required compactness property, the weak topology in a Sobolev space is considered. The topological tool established in the first part of the paper allows to avoid some obstacles which are encountered when trying to use standard degree-theoretical arguments.