PERSISTENCE IN MODELS OF PREDATOR PREY POPULATIONS WITH DIFFUSION
PERSISTENCE IN MODELS OF PREDATOR PREY POPULATIONS WITH DIFFUSION
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DOI:
10.1016/0022-0396(86)90044-6
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发表时间:
1986-10-01
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
SCHMITT, K
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作者:
DUNBAR, SR;RYBAKOWSKI, KP;SCHMITT, K
A wealth of literature exists on persistence in ordinary differential equations models (see, eg,[4] for many references). Our work was motivated by the papers [4, 53, where beautiful geometric arguments are used to deduce persistence in certain three-dimensional systems. We posed the question whether similar systems will still be persistent once populations are no longer spatially homogeneously distributed but are allowed to diffuse in space. This paper addresses this question and presents an allirmative answer for a large class of models. The paper is organized in the following way: We first present some terminology and facts from the theory of dynamical systems and use these to deduce an abstract result about invariant sets. This result can be used to show persistence in certain reaction-diffusion systems. As an application we consider a nonlinear three-dimensional system of the type studied in [4]. Finally, we present graphically the results of some numerical calculations.During a recent meeting at Oberwolfach, West Germany, we learned of a paper by G. Butler and P. Waltman (“Persistence in dynamical systems,” J. Differential Equations, in press) where a result similar to our Theorem 2.2 is established. Because of the method of proof employed there, the result of Butler and Waltman is not applicable to systems with diffusion. We wish to thank the Oberwolfach Forschungsinstitut for bringing the three of us together.