Mathematical study of the effects of travel costs on optimal dispersal in a two-patch model (Q256866)

This paper investigates a version of the single-species two-patch habitat model \[ \begin{aligned} \dot{N}_1&= N_1g_1(N_1, M_1; K_1)-dN_1+(1-k)(d+m_RK)N_2,\\ \dot{N}_2&= N_2g_2(N_2, M_2; K_2)+(1-k)dN_1-(d+m_RK)N_2,\\ \dot{M}_1&= M_1g_1(M_1, N_1; K_1)-dM_1+(1-k)(d+m_MK)M_2,\\ \dot{M}_2&=M_2g_2(M_2, N_2; K_2)+(1-k)dM_1-(d+m_MK)M_2,\end{aligned} \] where \(N_i\) denotes the abundance of organisms in patch \(i\) and \(M_i\) represents the mutant abundance in patch \(i\), the population growth in each patch and the per capita growth rate in each patch are denoted by \(f_i\) and \(g_i\), respectively, \(i=1, 2\). The author gives conditions for the parameters of the considered model under which the equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable and there are an evolutionary stable strategy and a convergent stable strategy.