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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.

Cross Diffusion Induced Turing Patterns in a Tritrophic Food Chain Model with Crowley-Martin Functional Response

Mathematics, 2019

Diffusion has long been known to induce pattern formation in predator prey systems. For certain prey-predator interaction systems, self diffusion conditions ceases to induce patterns, i.e., a non-constant positive solution does not exist, as seen from the literature. We investigate the effect of cross diffusion on the pattern formation in a tritrophic food chain model. In the formulated model, the prey interacts with the mid level predator in accordance with Holling Type II functional response and the mid and top level predator interact via Crowley-Martin functional response. We prove that the stationary uniform solution of the system is stable in the presence of diffusion when cross diffusion is absent. However, this solution is unstable in the presence of both self diffusion and cross diffusion. Using a priori analysis, we show the existence of a inhomogeneous steady state. We prove that no non-constant positive solution exists in the presence of diffusion under certain conditions...

Pattern formation in a reaction-diffusion ratio-dependent predator-prey model

Miskolc Mathematical Notes, 2005

A. In this paper we study the effect of diffusion on the stability of the equilibria in a reaction-diffusion ratio-dependent predator-prey model and we explore under which parameter values Turing instability can occur giving rise to nonuniform stationary solutions. Moreover, their stability is studied.

Turing instability for a ratio-dependent predator–prey model with diffusion

Ratio-dependent predator-prey models have been increasingly favored by field ecologists where predator-prey interactions have to be taken into account the process of predation search. In this paper we study the conditions of the existence and stability properties of the equilibrium solutions in a reaction-diffusion model in which predator mortality is neither a constant nor an unbounded function, but it is increasing with the predator abundance. We show that analytically at a certain critical value a diffusion driven (Turing type) instability occurs, i.e. the stationary solution stays stable with respect to the kinetic system (the system without diffusion). We also show that the stationary solution becomes unstable with respect to the system with diffusion and that Turing bifurcation takes place: a spatially non-homogenous (non-constant) solution (structure or pattern) arises. A numerical scheme that preserve the positivity of the numerical solutions and the boundedness of prey solution will be presented. Numerical examples are also included.

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

Existence of spatial patterns in reaction–diffusion systems incorporating a prey refuge

Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control, 2015

In real-world ecosystem, studies on the mechanisms of spatiotemporal pattern formation in a system of interacting populations deserve special attention for its own importance in contemporary theoretical ecology. The present investigation deals with the spatial dynamical system of a two-dimensional continuous diffusive predator-prey model involving the influence of intra-species competition among predators with the incorporation of a constant proportion of prey refuge. The linear stability analysis has been carried out and the appropriate condition of Turing instability around the unique positive interior equilibrium point of the present model system has been determined. Furthermore, the existence of the various spatial patterns through diffusion-driven instability and the Turing space in the spatial domain have been explored thoroughly. The results of numerical simulations reveal the dynamics of population density variation in the formation of isolated groups, following spotted or stripe-like patterns or coexistence of both the patterns. The results of the present investigation also point out that the prey refuge does have significant influence on the pattern formation of the interacting populations of the model under consideration.

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. *

Long-time behavior and Turing instability induced by cross-diffusion in a three species food chain model with a Holling type-II functional response

Mathematical Biosciences, 2015

In this paper, we study a strongly coupled reaction-diffusion system describing three interacting species in a food chain model, where the third species preys on the second one and simultaneously the second species preys on the first one. An intra-species competition b 2 among the second predator is introduced to the food chain model. This parameter produce some very interesting result in linear stability and Turing instability. We first show that the unique positive equilibrium solution is locally asymptotically stable for the corresponding ODE system when the intra-species competition exists among the second predator. The positive equilibrium solution remains linearly stable for the reaction diffusion system without cross diffusion, hence it does not belong to the classical Turing instability scheme. But it becomes linearly unstable only when cross-diffusion also plays a role in the reaction-diffusion system, hence the instability is driven solely from the effect of cross diffusion. Our results also exhibit some interesting combining effects of cross-diffusion, intra-species competitions and inter-species interactions. Numerically, we conduct a one parameter analysis which illustrate how the interactions change the existence of stable equilibrium, limit cycle, and chaos. Some interesting dynamical phenomena occur when we perform analysis of interactions in terms of selfproduction of prey and intra-species competition of the middle predator. By numerical simulations, it illustrates the existence of nonuniform steady solutions and new patterns such as spot patterns, strip patterns and fluctuations due to the diffusion and cross diffusion in 2-dimension.