The effects of simple density-dependent prey diffusion and refuge in a predator-prey system

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2021.124983MaRDI QIDQ1998750zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 8 March 2021

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.06666

zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear reaction-diffusion systempredator-prey modelrefugeRosenzweig-Macarthur model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences (35Q92) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

Abstract: We study a spatial (two-dimensional) Rosenzweig-MacArthur model under the following assumptions: $(1)$ prey movement follows a nonlinear diffusion, $(2)$ preys have a refuge zone (sometimes called "protection zone") where predators cannot enter, (3) predators move following linear diffusion. We present a bifurcation analysis for the system that shows the existence of positive solutions at the steady state. We complement the theoretical results with numerical computations and compare our results with those obtained in the case of having linear diffusion for the prey movement. Our results show that both models, with linear and nonlinear diffusion for the prey, have the same bifurcation point and the positive solution curves are virtually the same in a neighborhood of this point, but they get drastically different as the bifurcation parameter approaches to zero.

Review text

This paper presents a simple nonlinear diffusion mechanism in a prey population to model a plausible adaptive response that counteracts intraspecific competition for resources. The model space includes an area free of predators. The saturation of prey by predators is also taken into account and included in the model using the Holling type II function. Such a scenario can be viewed as a simplified approximation to the problems of biological control or conservation, when diffusion, depending on the density of the prey population, affects the dynamics of the system compared to linear diffusion. The article gives an answer for a very simple case of nonlinear diffusion. As theoretical arguments, the authors use a new adaptation of the maximum principle to the nonlinear case and the classical results of the bifurcation theory. So, they could to show the existence of positive solutions in a steady state. The analysis is supplemented by a numerical computation of bifurcation curves for the case of nonlinear and linear diffusion cases.

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