Spreading speeds of a partially degenerate reaction-diffusion system in a periodic habitat (Q2637792)

The authors study the spreading speeds of a partially degenerate reaction-diffusion system with monostable nonlinearity in a periodic habitat. They first obtain sufficient conditions for the existence of principal eigenvalues in the case where the solution maps of the associated linear systems lack compactness and prove a threshold-type result on the global dynamics for the periodic initial value problem. Then, they establish the existence and computational formulae of spreading speeds for the general initial value problem.