We consider a three-species predator-prey system involving two competing predators and one prey. The species diffuse with nonlocal dispersal kernels with possibly non-compact support, and they interact in a heterogeneous environment moving with a positive forced speed such that the environment is favorable to the prey in the absence of predators far ahead of the shifting boundary and it is unfavorable far behind. Such systems arise in the modeling of population dynamics under the effect of a shifting environment, such as climate change. We show on the one hand the existence of waves connecting the trivial state to the unique constant positive coexistence state for any value of the forced speed. On the other hand, we show the existence of critical positive speeds for the existence of waves connecting the trivial state to the states corresponding to the absence of one or two predators.
This paper is concerned with a diffusive predator-prey model with predator-taxis and prey-taxis. Based on the Schauder fixed point theorem, we prove the global existence, uniqueness and boundedness of the classical solutions under the conditions that the predator-taxis and prey-taxis effects are weak enough.
The diffusive Beddington-DeAngelis predator-prey model with nonlinear prey-taxis and free boundary is considered. We investigate the existence and uniqueness, regularity and uniform estimates, and long time behavior of the global solution. Some sufficient conditions for both spreading and vanishing are established.
This paper investigates the large time behaviour of a three species reaction-diffusion system, modelling the spatial invasion of two predators feeding on a single prey species. In addition to the competition for food, the two predators exhibit competitive interactions and under some parameter conditions ($μ>0$), they can also be considered as two mutants. When mutations occur in the predator populations, the spatial spread of invasion takes place at a definite speed, identical for both mutants. When the two predators are not coupled through mutation, the spreading behaviour exhibits a more com…
An age-structured predator-prey system with diffusion and Holling-Tanner-type nonlinearities is considered. Regarding the intensity of the fertility of the predator as bifurcation parameter, we prove that a branch of positive coexistence steady states bifurcates from the marginal steady state with no prey. A similar result is obtained when the fertility of the prey varies.
We present a nonlinear predator-prey system consisting of a nonlocal conservation law for predators coupled with a parabolic equation for preys. The drift term in the predators' equation is a nonlocal function of the prey density, so that the movement of predators can be directed towards region with high prey density. Moreover, Lotka-Volterra type right hand sides describe the feeding. A theorem ensuring existence, uniqueness, continuous dependence of weak solutions and various stability estimates is proved, in any space dimension. Numerical integrations show a few qualitative features of the …
We investigate the traveling wave solutions of a three-species system involving a single predator and a pair of strong-weak competing preys. Our results show how the predation may affect this dynamics. More precisely, we describe several situations where the environment is initially inhabited by the predator and by either one of the two preys. When the weak competing prey is an aboriginal species, we show that there exist traveling waves where the strong prey invades the environment and either replaces its weak counterpart, or more surprisingly the three species eventually co-exist. Furthermor…
In this paper, we study the Lotka-Volterra prey-predator models consisting of two species on finite connected graphs under Neumann condition and the condition that there is no boundary condition. We establish the global stability of the unique constant equilibrium solution of each parabolic system.
The time-global unique solvability on the reaction diffusion equations for prey-predator models with density-dependent inhibitor and dormancy on predators is established. The crucial step of the proof is to construct time-local non-negative classical solutions. To do so, new successive approximation and theories of time-evolution operators are used. Due to the maximum principle, the solutions are extended time-globally. Via analysis on the corresponding ordinary differential equations, invariant regions and asymptotic behaviors of solutions are also investigated.
We study a system of elliptic equations with strong competition and an arbitrary large number of components. The system is related to a model of predators and prey, with a single and where several predators compete with each other. In this paper we derive regularity estimates of the solutions that are independent of the number of components (i.e., groups of predators) and the strength of competition between the components.
We study the reaction-diffusion Lotka-Volterra predator-prey model with Dirichlet boundary condition. In the case of equal diffusion rates and equal growth rates, the synchronized steady state solution is proved to be locally asymptotically stable.
In this paper we study a ratio-dependent predator-prey model with a free boundary causing by both prey and predator over a one dimensional habitat. We study the long time behaviors of the two species and prove a spreading-vanishing dichotomy, namely, as t goes to infinity, both prey and predator successfully spread to the whole space and survive in the new environment, or they spread within a bounded area and die out eventually. Then the criteria governing spreading and vanishing are obtained. Finally, when spreading occurs, we provide some estimates to the asymptotic spreading speed of h(t).
In this paper we study a free boundary problem for a ratio-dependent predator-prey system in one space dimension, with the free boundary only caused by the prey. The long time behaviors of solution are discussed. Then we establish a spreading-vanishing dichotomy and the criteria for spreading and vanishing. Finally, when spreading occurs, an accurate limit of the asymptotic speed of h(t) is provided.
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 t…
For a stationary system representing prey and $N$ groups of competing predators, we show classification results about the set of positive solutions. In particular, we show that if the number of components $N$ is too large or if the competition between different groups is too small, then the system has only constant solutions, which we then completely characterize.
The global stability of the nonhomogeneous positive steady state solution to a diffusive Holling-Tanner predator-prey model in a heterogeneous environment is proved by using a newly constructed Lyapunov function and estimates of nonconstant steady state solutions. The techniques developed here can be adapted for other spatially heterogeneous consumer-resource models.
This paper focus on the diffusive eco-epidemiological prey-predator model with infectious diseases in prey, and with the homogeneous Neumann and Dirichlet boundary conditions, respectively. When boundary conditions are homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions, we give a complete conclusion about the stabilities of nonnegative constant equilibrium solutions. The results show that such a problem has neither periodic solutions nor Turing patterns. When boundary conditions are homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions, we first establish the necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of …
To understand the spreading and interaction of prey and predator, in this paper we study the dynamics of the diffusive Lotka-Volterra type prey-predator model with different free boundaries. These two free boundaries, which may intersect each other as time evolves, are used to describe the spreading of prey and predator. We investigate the existence and uniqueness, regularity and uniform estimates, and long time behaviors of global solution. Some sufficient conditions for spreading and vanishing are established. When spreading occurs, we provide the more accurate limits of (u,v) as t\to\infty,…
In this paper, we investigate so-called forced wave solutions of a three components reaction-diffusion system from population dynamics. Our system involves three species that are respectively two competing preys and one predator; moreover, the competition between both preys is strong, i.e. in the absence of the predator, one prey is driven to extinction and the other survives. Furthermore, our problem includes a spatio-temporal heterogeneity in a moving variable that typically stands as a model for climate shift. In this context, forced waves are special stationary solutions which are expected…
In this paper, we investigate the global boundedness, asymptotic stability and pattern formation of predator-prey systems with density-dependent preytaxis in a two-dimensional bounded domain with Neumann boundary conditions, where the coefficients of motility (diffusion) and mobility (preytaxis) of the predator are correlated through a prey density dependent motility function. We establish the existence of classical solutions with uniform-in time bound and the global stability of the spatially homogeneous prey-only steady states and coexistence steady states under certain conditions on paramet…
We are concerned with the persistence of both predator and prey in a diffusive predator-prey system with a climate change effect, which is modeled by a spatial-temporal heterogeneity depending on a moving variable. Moreover, we consider both the cases of nonlocal and local dispersal. In both these situations, we first prove the existence of forced waves, which are positive stationary solutions in the moving frames of the climate change, of either front or pulse type. Then we address the persistence or extinction of the prey and the predator separately in various moving frames, and achieve a co…
In any reaction-diffusion system of predator-prey models, the population densities of species are determined by the interactions between them, together with the influences from the spatial environments surrounding them. Generally, the prey species would die out when their birth rate is too low, the habitat size is too small, the predator grows too fast, or the predation pressure is too high. To save the endangered prey species, some human interference is useful, such as creating a protection zone where the prey could cross the boundary freely but the predator is prohibited from entering. This …
This paper concerns pattern formation in a class of reaction-advection-diffusion systems modeling the population dynamics of two predators and one prey. We consider the biological situation that both predators forage along the population density gradient of the preys which can defend themselves as a group. We prove the global existence and uniform boundedness of positive classical solutions for the fully parabolic system over a bounded domain with space dimension $N=1,2$ and for the parabolic- -parabolic-elliptic system over higher space dimensions. Linearized stability analysis shows that pre…
In this paper, we consider a Leslie-Gower predator-prey model in one-dimensional environment. We study the asymptotic behavior of two species evolving in a domain with a free boundary. Sufficient conditions for spreading success and spreading failure are obtained. We also derive sharp criteria for spreading and vanishing of the two species. Finally, when spreading is successful, we show that the spreading speed is between the minimal speed of traveling wavefront solutions for the predator-prey model on the whole real line (without a free boundary) and an elliptic problem that follows from the …
We study a mathematical model of environments populated by both preys and predators, with the possibility for predators to actively compete for the territory. For this model we study existence and uniqueness of solutions, and their asymptotic properties in time, showing that the solutions have different behavior depending on the choice of the parameters. We also construct heterogeneous stationary solutions and study the limits of strong competition and abundant resources. We then use these information to study some properties such as the existence of solutions that maximize the total populatio…
In this paper, we investigate the effect of dispersal and advection on the dynamics of a predator-prey model. More precisely, we show that the linear stability of the semi-trivial steady state is determined by the dispersal rate, the mortality rate of the predator and the advection rate. We point out that compared to homogeneous intrinsic growth rate and carrying capacity, the case in this paper is more complicated. This work gives a investigation to an open problem proposed by Nie et al. in \cite{NWW} by considering a more general model, and then, can be seen as a further development of their…
The role of predator evasion mediated by chemical signaling is studied in a diffusive prey-predator model when prey-taxis is taken into account (model A) or not (model B) with taxis strength coefficients $χ$ and $ξ$ respectively. In the kinetic part of the models it is assumed that the rate of prey consumption includes functional responses of Holling, Bedington-DeAngelis or Crowley-Martin. Existence of global-in-time classical solutions to model A is proved in space dimension n=1 while to model B for any $n\geq 1$. The Crowley-Martin response combined with bounded rate of signal production pre…
In this paper, we study the dynamics of the ratio-dependent type prey-predator model with different free boundaries. The two free boundaries, determined by prey and predator respectively, implying that they may intersect each other as time evolves, are used to describe the spreading of prey and predator. We mainly investigate the longtime behaviors of predator and prey. Then some sufficient conditions for spreading and vanishing are given. In addition, when spreading occurs, some estimates of asymptotic spreading speeds of u, v and asymptotic speeds of h, g are provided.
In this paper we investigate some free boundary problems for the Lotka-Volterra type prey-predator model in one space dimension. The main objective is to understand the asymptotic behavior of the two species (prey and predator) spreading via a free boundary. We prove a spreading-vanishing dichotomy, namely the two species either successfully spread to the entire space as time $t$ goes to infinity and survive in the new environment, or they fail to establish and die out in the long run. The long time behavior of solution and criteria for spreading and vanishing are also obtained. Finally, when …
In this paper we explore the eco-evolutionary dynamics of a predator-prey model, where the prey population is structured according to a certain life history trait. The trait distribution within the prey population is the result of interplay between genetic inheritance and mutation, as well as selectivity in the consumption of prey by the predator. The evolutionary processes are considered to take place on the same time scale as ecological dynamics, i.e. we consider the evolution to be rapid. Previously published results show that population structuring and rapid evolution in such predator-prey…
