Abstract
In this paper, a diffusive predator–prey system with a functional response that increases in both predator and prey densities is considered. By analyzing the characteristic roots of the partial differential equation system, the Turing instability and Hopf bifurcation are studied. In order to consider the dynamics of the model where the Turing bifurcation curve and the Hopf bifurcation curve intersect, we chose the diffusion coefficients and as bifurcating parameters. In particular, the normal form of Turing–Hopf bifurcation was calculated so that we could obtain the phase diagram. For parameters in each region of the phase diagram, there are different types of solutions, and their dynamic properties are extremely rich. In this study, we have used some numerical simulations in order to confirm these ideas.
1. Introduction
The relationship between prey and predator plays an important role in various ecosystems [1,2,3,4,5]. Many researchers have established differential equation-type models with functional response functions to describe this interaction [6,7,8,9]. One set of types of classical functional response is the Holling I–III types [10,11,12]. While this type of functional response only depends on the prey density, it is not sufficient to describe the relationship for some species. For example, when tuna encounter a school of prey, the population always forages in a line and aggregates together [13]. This phenomenon shows that the behavior of the tuna could lead to an effective increase in the encounter rate [14]. Based on this result, the following functional response function is proposed by Cosner et al. [14]:
where the positive constant is the total encounter coefficient between prey and predator, and is the handling time per prey. Moreover, C is a positive constant which represents the amount consumed by each predator per encounter [14]. In principle, when the predator population becomes large, they can hunt prey more efficiently. This functional response could make the predator–prey model more interesting and exhibit more complex dynamics.
Therefore, Ryu et al. [15] considered the predator–prey model (2) with the functional response (1):
where is the conversion rate, and is the death rate of the predator. Using the following equations
and dropping the upper bars, the model (2) becomes:
Ryu et al. [15] analyzed the bifurcations of the model (3), such as the saddle–node bifurcation, Hopf bifurcation, and Bogdanov–Takens bifurcation. They showed that the model with the functional response (1) had more complex dynamics.
In the real world, prey and predators do not remain stationary and often spread. This situation leads to diffusion. Many researchers have added diffusive terms to predator–prey models and shown complex bifurcating phenomena [16,17,18,19,20]. Singh et al. studied a modified Leslie–Gower predator–prey model with a double Allee effect [19]. They mainly considered the local bifurcations. Using the first Lyapunov coefficient, they found the local existence of the limit cycle emerging.
Motivated by the studies mentioned above, we considered the intervention of diffusion and functional response function (1) for a predator–prey model. Using theoretical analysis and numerical simulation, we aim to address the following questions. Firstly, compared with the classical Holling I–III types’ functional responses, can the functional response (1) induce different dynamics phenomena? Secondly, what are the dynamic effects of diffusion on the model (3)? Finally, whether the codimension-2 bifurcation (Turing–Hopf bifurcation) occurs in the new model?
This paper is organized into sections. In Section 2, we formulate the model and discuss the existence of positive equilibrium. In Section 3, a lot of work has been conducted in analyzing branches. In Section 4, the normal form of Turing–Hopf bifurcation is discussed. In Section 5, in order to verify our statements, some numerical simulations are carried out.
2. Model Formulation
Based on the model (3), we conclude that ; this study examines the following model with this diffusion term:
where is regarded as prey, and stands for predator, the densities of which were measured at location x and time t. The diffusion coefficients of prey, , and diffusion coefficients of predator, , are displayed. , , and are all positive parameters. The boundary condition is of the Neumann type. For convenience, we chose one-dimensional space , where .
In this section, we analyze the existence of a positive equilibrium. By the nature of the positive equilibrium, we consider the corresponding ODE system of (4) without diffusion terms.
From (5), it is easy to verify that and are two boundary equilibria of model (4). From the second equation of system (5), we can easily calculate that . If , then . Therefore, system (5) has no positive equilibrium. We will use as the positive equilibrium of model (4) in the rest of this paper, supposing that holds.
Substituting into the first equation of (5), we have:
Obviously, has two roots:
In addition, . Therefore, has two positive roots if , one positive root if , and no positive root if .
Due to the above analysis, we have the following lemma:
Lemma 1.
For the model (4), the following statements about the coexistence equilibrium are true:
- 1.
- There is no coexistence equilibrium if .
- 2.
- There is a unique coexistence equilibrium if , where .
- 3.
- There are two coexistence equilibria and if , where are the two positive roots of (6) and .
For the final statement, we always regard as a coexistence equilibrium of the system (4).
3. Bifurcation Analysis
Sobolev space is used to study the theory of partial differential equations. In this section, we define
as a real-valued Sobolev space and
as the complexification of X. The linearization of (4) at is
where
It is well known that the operator , with at 0 and , has eigenvalues with corresponding eigenfunctions , where
Thus, we can obtain the following characteristic equation of (8):
where
is the trace of (10) and
is the determinant of (10).
Thus, we calculate that the eigenvalues of (10) are
To simplify our work, we make the assumptions and :
If and hold, for , and and are satisfied, the roots of (5) have negative real parts. Thus, we have the following theorem:
Theorem 1.
Assume and hold. For ordinary differential equation systems, the equilibrium is locally asymptotically stable.
3.1. Turing Instability
Using the above assumptions and , we can obtain the following:
This implies that . For , we obtain , if holds. For , we chose as the bifurcation parameter and mainly consider the following conditions:
where .
Obviously, for under the assumption . When condition I holds, the roots of (4) have negative real parts if . As for the case in which condition II holds, we follow a similar principle, so that is locally asymptotically stable. If a exists such that in condition III, then the roots of (4) have a positive real part , which means that the stability of the equilibrium has changed for system (4). Based on the above analysis, we obtain Theorem 2:
Theorem 2.
Here, we suppose and always hold. For a reaction–diffusion system (4), the equilibrium is locally asymptotically stable in . As for , if no exists such that , then the stability of does not change. Otherwise, a exists such that ; therefore Turing instability could take place at in .
Remark 1.
Turing instability cannot occur when the functional response is replaced by classical Holling I–III types in the model (4).
Proof.
If we choose the functional response of the Holling I–III types in the model (4), we can obtain , , and , where the symbol of is unknown for (14). In this case, the trace of characteristic Equation (10) is:
where the determinant of (10) is
We make assumptions and which are similar to (14):
If and hold, it is easy to find that for all values of and , which are assumed to be positive. In that case, the eigenvalues will always have negative parts. This means that the equilibrium is locally asymptotically stable for the reaction–diffusion system (4). Therefore, Turing instability will never happen for system (4) with the Holling I–III functional response. The proof is finished. □
3.2. Hopf Bifurcation
For Hopf bifurcation, Equation (10) must have a pair of purely imaginary roots. Therefore, we obtain:
where .
For , when holds. Thus:
and
We can summarize the results as follows:
Theorem 3.
Suppose assumption is satisfied. For a reaction–diffusion system (4), Hopf bifurcation can take place at equilibrium , when , and has a spatially homogeneous bifurcating periodic solution when . In addition, a spatially non-homogeneous bifurcating periodic solution exists when for .
3.3. Turing–Hopf Bifurcation
Suppose assumption always holds in this section. From Theorem 3, we know that system (4) undergoes Hopf bifurcation when .
In accordance with this, we chose as the bifurcation parameter and obtained a series of Turing bifurcation curves:
When , we can obtain the Hopf bifurcation curve:
where a exists, such that
Thus, we gain the Theorem 4 about the Turing–Hopf bifurcation.
Theorem 4.
For system (4), assumption always holds. Then,
Proof.
In the plane, the Hopf bifurcation curve is denoted by
The Turing bifurcation curves are
If in the first quadrant, the bifurcation curves and have no intersection with each other, so a Turing–Hopf bifurcation does not exist for the reaction–diffusion system (4).
If , intersects with at the Turing–Hopf bifurcation point , it is easy to demonstrate that and for when . This leads to being locally asymptotically stable and real parts of all other eigenvalues of Equation (10) () being negative.
In order to verify the transversality conditions, we make the following assumption:
For , no exists so that
Thus, under assumption , we suppose with , , and with , , and we can obtain:
This can be demonstrated. □
4. Normal Forms for Turing–Hopf Bifurcation
We can see that and , where perturbation parameters are and . From Theorem 4, for a reaction–diffusion system (4), the theorem is satisfies that when , , Turing–Hopf bifurcation could take place at . Thus, when we translate the equilibrium to the origin , and drop the bars, the reaction–diffusion system (4) becomes
Thus, according to [21], we gain
with
and , , .
The corresponding characteristic matrices are
Thus, we can find the eigenvalues of to be , with . According to Theorem 4, has a simple eigenvalue of , and the real parts of the other eigenvalues are less than zero. From [21], we can see that
5. Numerical Simulations
Some numerical simulations are presented to show more dynamics phenomena for the reaction–diffusion system (4). If we choose , system (4) becomes:
From our calculations, we obtain two positive equilibrium points and . We obtain when , which shows that this equilibrium is unstable. Therefore, we choose , we obtain , , , , and assumption holds.
The Hopf bifurcation curve in the plane is
The Turing bifurcation curves are
So, we created these curves using MATLAB in order to find the first intersection point for the Turing bifurcation curves and the Hopf bifurcation curve.
Figure 1 (Left) shows the Turing bifurcation curve and the Hopf bifurcation curve ; they have many intersection points. We chose the first intersection point when and as the Turing–Hopf bifurcation point of system (25). The stable region for is located on the right-hand side of the Hopf bifurcation curve and below the Turing bifurcation curve . The Turing unstable region for is shown on the right-hand side of the Hopf bifurcation curve and above the Turing bifurcation curve .
Figure 1.
Left: some regions of and some curves in the plane. Right: the phase diagram, which is described more in Proposition 1.
Using the same tranformation as (24), we obtain
From [21], considering , system (26) has the following equilibria:
- (1)
- The coexistence equilibrium: .
- (2)
- The spatially inhomogeneous steady states:
- (3)
- The spatially homogeneous periodic solution:
- (4)
- The spatially inhomogeneous periodic solutions:
Through analysis of the existence of these equilibria for system (26), the following critical bifurcation curves are obtained:
These bifurcation curves, , and , divide the parameter plane into six regions, see Figure 1 (Right). From each area, we gain Proposition 1:
Proposition 1.
The Figure 1 (Right) shows more different dynamic phenomena by analyzing the stability of the equilibria of system (26). For each parameter region, we obtain some interesting results. When , a coexistence equilibrium , exists which is asymptotically stable (Figure 2). However, becomes unstable if . When , a pair of spatially inhomogeneous steady states exist, along with an unstable coexistence equilibrium , which is attracted by stable (Figure 3). When , a pair of spatially inhomogeneous steady states remain stable, while a spatially homogeneous periodic solution becomes unstable (see Figure 4). When , a pair of spatially inhomogeneous steady states and a spatially homogeneous periodic solution become unstable; however a pair of stable spatially inhomogeneous periodic solutions appears (see Figure 5). When , a pair of spatially inhomogeneous steady states disappear, the stability of a pair of spatially inhomogeneous periodic solutions has not changed, and an unstable spatially homogeneous periodic solution tends toward stable (Figure 6). When , there only a stable spatially homogeneous periodic solution exists, which means that the system (26) indicates temporal patterns (Figure 7).
Figure 2.
For . Where is the coexistence equilibrium, which is asymptotically stable.
Figure 3.
For , a pair of spatially inhomogeneous steady states exists, which is stable.
Figure 4.
For , (a pair of spatially inhomogeneous steady states) remains stable, but a track which connects with an unstable spatially homogeneous periodic solution exists.
Figure 5.
When , there are three different types of solutions, a pair of spatially inhomogeneous periodic solutions remains stable, become unstable, and remains unstable in this region. A track connects them with each other.
Figure 6.
For , (a pair of spatially inhomogeneous periodic solutions) remains stable, while becomes unstable and tends toward .
Figure 7.
The initial values are . When , only a stable spatially homogeneous periodic solution exists.
6. Conclusions
Ryu et al. [15] have conducted much fantastic work to analyze model (3). From [22], we know that Turing instability may take place if diffusion terms are added to an ordinary differential equation system. In particular, we find that the system (4) with classical Holling I–III types can not occur during Turing instability (see Remark 1). Therefore, based on model (3), a diffusive predator–prey model with functional response (1) is considered in this article. From Theorem 2, we find that Turing instability could take place when Case 3 holds. Theorem 3 shows the conditions necessary for the existence of Hopf bifurcation. We used the central manifold and normal forms from [21] to explore whether Turing–Hopf bifurcation occurs. This is also the source of both the difficulty and novelty of our article. We chose as bifurcation parameters and divided the bifurcation diagram into six regions. The model produced different states for each region. In , it shows that the positive equilibrium of system (4) is asymptotically stable, which means two populations (predator and prey) will survive together and keep stable. In , due to a pair of stable spatially inhomogeneous steady states (which means that the two populations (predator and prey) finally tend to being stable), the spatial distributions of populations are inhomogeneous. In , a pair of spatially inhomogeneous steady states (which are stable) and a spatially homogeneous periodic solution (which is unstable) appear. This means that the two populations (predator and prey) will exhibit periodic oscillation and tend to be stable in the end. In , there are three different types of solutions, a pair of spatially inhomogeneous periodic solutions () which are stable, and and which are unstable in this region. This means that the state of the two populations has been chaotic since the beginning, ultimately periodic phenomena may appear, which tend to stability. In , a pair of spatially inhomogeneous steady states, , became non-existent. This means that predator and prey will coexist and exhibit oscillatory behavior. In , the system (4) only has a stable spatially homogeneous periodic solution. This also means that predator and prey will coexist and exhibit oscillatory behavior. Finally, the results of numerical simulations to support the above work which indicate the model (4) have more complex dynamic properties (see Figure 2, Figure 3, Figure 4, Figure 5, Figure 6 and Figure 7).
Author Contributions
Writing—original draft preparation: R.Y. and Q.S.; writing—review and editing, funding acquisition: R.Y., Q.S. and Y.A.; methodology and supervision: R.Y. and Y.A. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research is supported by Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 2572021DJ01), the Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province (No. A2018001), the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China (No. 2019M651237), and the National Nature Science Foundation of China (No. 11601070).
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Conflicts of Interest
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