Allee-effect-induced instability in a reaction-diffusion predator-prey model (Q369986)

Summary: We investigate the spatiotemporal dynamics induced by the Allee effect in a reaction-diffusion predator-prey model. In the case without Allee effect, there is nonexistence of diffusion-driven instability for the model, and in the case with Allee effect, the positive equilibrium may be unstable under certain conditions. This instability is induced both by the Allee effect and diffusion. Furthermore, via numerical simulations, the model dynamics exhibits both Allee effect and diffusion controlled pattern formation growth to holes, stripes-holes mixture, stripes, stripes-spots mixture, and spots replication, which shows that the dynamics of the model with Allee effect is not simple, but rich and complex.