Turing instability in  a coupled predator-preymodel with different Holling type functional responses

Zhifu Xie

doi:10.3934/dcdss.2011.4.1621

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2011, Volume 4, Issue 6: 1621-1628. Doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2011.4.1621

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Turing instability in a coupled predator-prey model with different Holling type functional responses

Zhifu Xie^1,

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Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Virginia State University, Petersburg, Virginia 23806

Received: March 31, 2009

Revised: October 31, 2009

Published: November 2011

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In a reaction-diffusion system, diffusion can induce the instability of a positive equilibrium which is stable with respect to a constant perturbation, therefore, the diffusion may create new patterns when the corresponding system without diffusion fails, as shown by Turing in 1950s. In this paper we study a coupled predator-prey model with different Holling type functional responses, where cross-diffusions are included in such a way that the prey runs away from predator and the predator chase preys. We conduct the Turing instability analysis for each Holling functional response. We prove that if a positive equilibrium solution is linearly stable with respect to the ODE system of the predator-prey model, then it is also linearly stable with respect to the model. So diffusion and cross-diffusion in the predator-prey model with Holling type functional responses given in this paper can not drive Turing instability. However, diffusion and cross-diffusion can still create non-constant positive solutions for the model.

Keywords:

Predator-prey model; Reaction-diffusion system; Cross-diffusion; Turing instability; Stationary pattern; Holling type functional response.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 92C15, 35K57; Secondary: 37L15, 92D40.

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