Turing-Hopf bifurcations in a predator-prey model with herd behavior, quadratic mortality and prey-taxis (Q2150214)

This paper is concerned with a predator-prey model with herd behavior and prey-taxis. The authors first analyze the stability and bifurcation of the positive equilibrium of the model subject to the homogeneous Neumann boundary condition. And then they obtain a branch of stable nonconstant solutions bifurcating from the positive equilibrium by using an abstract bifurcation theory and taking prey-tactic sensitivity coefficient as the bifurcation parameter. The obtained results show that prey-taxis can yield the occurrence of spatial patterns.