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Spatiotemporal dynamics of a diffusive predator-prey model with generalist predator

Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, 2018

In this paper, we study the spatiotemporal dynamics of a diffusive predator-prey model with generalist predator subject to homogeneous Neumann boundary condition. Some basic dynamics including the dissipation, persistence and non-persistence(i.e., one species goes extinct), the local and global stability of non-negative constant steady states of the model are investigated. The conditions of Turing instability due to diffusion at positive constant steady states are presented. A critical value ρ of the ratio d 2 d 1 of diffusions of predator to prey is obtained, such that if d 2 d 1 > ρ, then along with other suitable conditions Turing bifurcation will emerge at a positive steady state, in particular so it is with the large diffusion rate of predator or the small diffusion rate of prey; while if d 2 d 1 < ρ, both the reaction-diffusion system and its corresponding ODE system are stable at the positive steady state. In addition, we provide some results on the existence and non-existence of positive non-constant steady states. These existence results indicate that the occurrence of Turing bifurcation, along with other suitable conditions, implies the existence of non-constant positive steady states bifurcating from the constant solution. At last, by numerical simulations, we demonstrate Turing pattern formation on the effect of the varied diffusive ratio d 2 d 1. As d 2 d 1 increases, Turing patterns change from spots pattern, stripes pattern into spots-stripes pattern. It indicates that the pattern formation of the model is rich and complex.

Turing instability in two-patch predator-prey population dynamics

Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science

In this paper, a spatio-temporal model as systems of ODE which describe two-species Beddington-DeAngelis type predatorprey system living in a habitat of two identical patches linked by migration is investigated. It is assumed in the model that the per capita migration rate of each species is influenced not only by its own but also by the other one's density, i.e., there is cross diffusion present. We show that a standard (self-diffusion) system may be either stable or unstable, a cross-diffusion response can stabilize an unstable standard system and destabilize a stable standard system. For the diffusively stable model, numerical studies show that at a critical value of the bifurcation parameter the system undergoes a Turing bifurcation and the cross migration response is an important factor that should not be ignored when pattern emerges.

Instabilities in spatially extended predator–prey systems: Spatio-temporal patterns in the neighborhood of Turing–Hopf bifurcations

Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2007

We investigate the emergence of spatio-temporal patterns in ecological systems. In particular we study a generalized predator-prey system on a spatial domain. On this domain diffusion is considered as the principal process of motion. We derive the conditions for Hopf and Turing instabilities without specifying the predatorprey functional responses and discuss their biological implications. Furthermore, we identify the codimension-2 Turing-Hopf bifurcation and the codimension-3 Turing-Takens-Bogdanov bifurcation. These bifurcations give rise to complex pattern formation processes in their neighborhood. Our theoretical findings are illustrated with a specific model. In simulations a large variety of different types of long-term behavior, including homogenous distributions, stationary spatial patterns and complex spatio-temporal patterns is observed.

The spatial patterns through diffusion-driven instability in a predator–prey model

Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2012

Studies on stability mechanism and bifurcation analysis of a system of interacting populations by the combined effect of self and cross-diffusion become an important issue in ecology. In the current investigation, we derive the conditions for existence and stability properties of a predator-prey model under the influence of self and cross-diffusion. Numerical simulations have been carried out in order to show the significant role of self and cross-diffusion coefficients and other important parameters of the system. Various contour pictures of spatial patterns through Turing instability are portrayed and analysed in order to substantiate the applicability of the present model. Finally, the paper ends with an extended discussion of biological implications of our findings.

Pattern Formation and Bistability in a Generalist Predator-Prey Model

Mathematics, 2019

Generalist predators have several food sources and do not depend on one prey species to survive. There has been considerable attention paid by modellers to generalist predator-prey interactions in recent years. Erbach and collaborators in 2013 found a complex dynamics with bistability, limit-cycles and bifurcations in a generalist predator-prey system. In this paper we explore the spatio-temporal dynamics of a reaction-diffusion PDE model for the generalist predator-prey dynamics analyzed by Erbach and colleagues. In particular, we study the Turing and Turing-Hopf pattern formation with special attention to the regime of bistability exhibited by the local model. We derive the conditions for Turing instability and find the region of parameters for which Turing and/or Turing-Hopf instability are possible. By means of numerical simulations, we present the main types of patterns observed for parameters in the Turing domain. In the Turing-Hopf range of the parameters, we observed either ...

Stationary patterns induced by self- and cross-diffusion in a Beddington–DeAngelis predator–prey model

International Journal of Dynamics and Control, 2016

The study of spatial pattern formation through diffusion-driven instability of reaction-diffusion models of interacting species has long been one of the fundamental problems in mathematical ecology. The present article is concerned with interacting predator-prey reactiondiffusion model with Beddington-DeAngelis type functional response. The essential conditions for Hopf and Turing bifurcations are derived on the spatial domain. The parameter space for Turing spatial structure is established. Based on the bifurcation analysis, the spatial pattern formation in Turing space through numerical simulations is carried out in order to study the evolution procedure of the proposed model system in the vicinity of coexistence equilibrium point. The consequences of the results obtained reveal that the effects of selfand cross-diffusion play significant role on the steady state spatiotemporal pattern formation of the reaction-diffusion predator-prey model system which concerns the influence of intra-species competition among predators. Finally, ecological implications of the present results obtained are discussed at length towards the end in order to validate the applicability of the model under consideration. Keywords Beddington-DeAngelis predator-prey model • Pursuit and evasion • Self-and cross-diffusion • Turing bifurcation • Spatiotemporal pattern formation B Santabrata Chakravarty

Spatiotemporal pattern formation in a prey-predator model under environmental driving forces

Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2015

Many existing studies on pattern formation in the reaction-diffusion systems rely on deterministic models. However, environmental noise is often a major factor which leads to significant changes in the spatiotemporal dynamics. In this paper, we focus on the spatiotemporal patterns produced by the predator-prey model with ratio-dependent functional response and density dependent death rate of predator. We get the reaction-diffusion equations incorporating the self-diffusion terms, corresponding to random movement of the individuals within two dimensional habitats, into the growth equations for the prey and predator population. In order to have to have the noise added model, small amplitude heterogeneous perturbations to the linear intrinsic growth rates are introduced using uncorrelated Gaussian white noise terms. For the noise added system, we then observe spatial patterns for the parameter values lying outside the Turing instability region. With thorough numerical simulations we characterize the patterns corresponding to Turing and Turing-Hopf domain and study their dependence on different system parameters like noise-intensity, etc.

Patterns formations in a diffusive ratio-dependent predator–prey model of interacting populations

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2016

The present investigation deals with the analysis of the spatial pattern formation of a diffusive predator-prey system with ratio-dependent functional response involving the influence of intra-species competition among predators within two-dimensional space. The appropriate condition of Turing instability around the interior equilibrium point of the present model has been determined. The emergence of complex patterns in the diffusive predator-prey model is illustrated through numerical simulations. These results are based on the existence of bifurcations of higher codimension such as Turing-Hopf, Turing-Saddle-node, Turing-Transcritical bifurcation, and the codimension-3 Turing-Takens-Bogdanov bifurcation. The paper concludes with discussions of our results in ecology.

Turing Patterns in a Predator-Prey System with Self-Diffusion

Abstract and Applied Analysis, 2013

For a predator-prey system, cross-diffusion has been confirmed to emerge Turing patterns. However, in the real world, the tendency for prey and predators moving along the direction of lower density of their own species, called self-diffusion, should be considered. For this, we investigate Turing instability for a predator-prey system with nonlinear diffusion terms including the normal diffusion, cross-diffusion, and self-diffusion. A sufficient condition of Turing instability for this system is obtained by analyzing the linear stability of spatial homogeneous equilibrium state of this model. A series of numerical simulations reveal Turing parameter regions of the interaction of diffusion parameters. According to these regions, we further demonstrate dispersion relations and spatial patterns. Our results indicate that self-diffusion plays an important role in the spatial patterns. *