Ecological invasion in competition-diffusion systems when the exotic species is either very strong or very weak

DOI10.1007/S00285-018-1256-4zbMATH Open1406.35425arXiv1801.09982OpenAlexW3100194205WikidataQ89397209 ScholiaQ89397209MaRDI QIDQ1789075FDOQ1789075

Authors: Lorenzo Contento, Danielle Hilhorst, Masayasu Mimura 

Publication date: 9 October 2018

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Reaction-diffusion systems with a Lotka-Volterra-type reaction term, also known as competition-diffusion systems, have been used to investigate the dynamics of the competition among $m$ ecological species for a limited resource necessary to their survival and growth. Notwithstanding their rather simple mathematical structure, such systems may display quite interesting behaviours. In particular, while for $m=2$ no coexistence of the two species is usually possible, if $mge3$ we may observe coexistence of all or a subset of the species, sensitively depending on the parameter values. Such coexistence can take the form of very complex spatio-temporal patterns and oscillations. Unfortunately, at the moment there are no known tools for a complete analytical study of such systems for $mge3$. This means that establishing general criteria for the occurrence of coexistence appears to be very hard. In this paper we will instead give some criteria for the non-coexistence of species, motivated by the ecological problem of the invasion of an ecosystem by an exotic species. We will show that when the environment is very favourable to the invading species the invasion will always be successful and the native species will be driven to extinction. On the other hand, if the environment is not favourable enough, the invasion will always fail.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.09982

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zbMATH Keywords

competitive exclusioncomparison principlesingular limitlarge-time behaviourcompetition-diffusion systemecological invasion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Comparison principles in context of PDEs (35B51) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences (35Q92)

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