The role of protection zone on species spreading governed by a reaction-diffusion model with strong Allee effect (Q1732139)

The authors investigate a $1D$ reaction-diffusion model describing the evolution of a single species which is subject to the Allee effect. They assume that the species lives in a line habitat $\mathbb{R}$ and the initial datum (density) $u_0 = u_0(x)$ is nonnegative and compactly supported. It is known that the species will die out in the long run if $u_0$ is small. In order to avoid this situation, the authors consider two kinds of protection zones of the form $(-L,L)$ and $(-L_2,-L_1)\cup (L_1,L_2)$, with $L_2-L_1 =L$, within which the species growth is governed by the Fisher-KPP nonlinear reaction. Their results show that the protection zone works if $L$ is larger than a critical value, and that the connected case $(-L,L)$ is better for species spreading than the other one.