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# Stability of positive constant steady states and their bifurcation in a biological depletion model

• This paper is concerned with a biological depletion model in a bounded domain. The stability of the positive constant steady states is discussed. In one dimensional case, we make a detailed description for the global bifurcation structure from two positive constant solutions. The result indicates that if $d$ is properly small, the system has at least one non-constant positive steady-state. The main tools used here include the stability theory, bifurcation theory and simulations. From extensive numerical simulations, the predictions from linear theory are confirmed and the influence of parameters $d,D,\sigma$ on these patterns is depicted.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35K57, 92D25.

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