Coinvasion-Coexistence Traveling Wave Solutions of an Integro-Difference Competition System

This paper is concerned with the traveling wave solutions of an integro-difference competition system, of which the purpose is to model the coinvasion-coexistence process of two competitors with age structure. The existence of nontrivial traveling wave solutions is obtained by constructing generalized upper and lower solutions. The asymptotic and nonexistence of traveling wave solutions are proved by combining the theory of asymptotic spreading with the idea of contracting rectangle

Spreading Speed, Traveling Waves, and Minimal Domain Size in\ud Impulsive Reaction-diffusion Models

How growth, mortality, and dispersal in a species affect the species’ spread and persistence constitutes a central problem in spatial ecology. We propose impulsive reaction-diffusion equation models for species with distinct reproductive and dispersal stages. These models can describe a seasonal birth pulse plus nonlinear mortality and dispersal throughout the year. Alternatively they can describe seasonal harvesting, plus nonlinear birth and mortality as well as dispersal throughout the year. The population dynamics in the seasonal pulse is described by a discrete map that gives the density of the populationat the end stage as a possibly nonmonotone function of the density of the population at the beginning of the stage. The dynamics in the dispersal stage is governed by a nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation in a bounded or unbounded domain. We develop a spatially explicit theoretical framework that links species vital rates (mortality or fecundity) and dispersal characteristics with species’ spreading speeds, traveling wave speeds, as well as and minimal domain size for species persistence. We provide an explicit formula for the spreading speed in terms of model parameters, and show that the spreading speed can be characterized as the slowest speed of a class of traveling wave solutions. We also determine an explicit formula for the minimal domain size using model parameters. Our results show how the diffusion coefficient, and the combination of discrete- and continuous-time growth and mortality determine the spread and persistence dynamics of the population in a wide variety of ecological scenarios. Numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the theoretical results

A Global Attractivity in a Nonmonotone Age-Structured Model with Age Dependent Diffusion and Death Rates

In this paper, we investigated the global attractivity of the positive constant steady state solution of the mature population $w(t,x)$ governed by the age-structured model: \begin{equation*} \left\{\begin{array}{ll} \frac{\partial u}{\partial t}+\frac{\partial u}{\partial a}=D(a)\frac{\partial ^2 u}{\partial x^2} - d(a)u, & t\geq t_0\geq A_l,\;a\geq 0,\; 0< x< \pi,\\ w(t,x)=\int_r^{A_l}u(t,a,x)da,& t\geq t_0\geq A_l,\; 0<x<\pi,\\ u(t,0,x)=f(w(t,x)), & t\geq t_0\geq A_l,\; 0<x<\pi,\\ u_x(t,a,0)=u_x(t,a,\pi)=0,\;& t\geq t_0\geq A_l,\; a \geq 0, \end{array} \right. \end{equation*} when the diffusion rate $D(a)$ and the death rate $d(a)$ are age dependent, and when the birth function $f(w)$ is nonmonotone. We also presented some illustrative examples.Comment: 11 page

Front-like entire solutions for monostable reaction-diffusion systems

This paper is concerned with front-like entire solutions for monostable reactiondiffusion systems with cooperative and non-cooperative nonlinearities. In the cooperative case, the existence and asymptotic behavior of spatially independent solutions (SIS) are first proved. Combining a SIS and traveling fronts with different wave speeds and directions, the existence and various qualitative properties of entire solutions are then established using comparison principle. In the non-cooperative case, we introduce two auxiliary cooperative systems and establish some comparison arguments for the three systems. The existence of entire solutions is then proved via the traveling fronts and SIS of the auxiliary systems. Our results are applied to some biological and epidemiological models. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first work to study the entire solutions of non-cooperative reaction-diffusion systems