TY - JOUR
T1 - Ecological models, permanence and spatial heterogeneity
AU - Cantrell, Robert Stephen
AU - Cosner, Chris
AU - Hutson, Vivian
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PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - We model the interactions of two theoretical populations which are allowed to move at random throughout a bounded habitat via systems of two weakly coupled reaction-diffusion equations. The reaction terms in these systems in-volve parameters which are subject to biological interpretation and which are assumed to be spatially dependent. We examine the effect of spatial heterogeneity on the long-term viability of each of the populations, with the aim of quantifying the effect in terms of the biological parameters in the models. To this end, we employ the dynamic concept of permanence of the interacting populations, conditions for which lead directly to the spectral theory for linear elliptic boundary value problems, so that the long-term viability of the populations can be expressed in terms of eigenvalues depending on the biological parameters of the models in directly quantifiable ways. We give a number of examples and demonstrate for the first time via reaction-diffusion equations that spatial heterogeneity can lead to coexistence in situations wherein extinction would result, were the habitat spatially homogeneous.
AB - We model the interactions of two theoretical populations which are allowed to move at random throughout a bounded habitat via systems of two weakly coupled reaction-diffusion equations. The reaction terms in these systems in-volve parameters which are subject to biological interpretation and which are assumed to be spatially dependent. We examine the effect of spatial heterogeneity on the long-term viability of each of the populations, with the aim of quantifying the effect in terms of the biological parameters in the models. To this end, we employ the dynamic concept of permanence of the interacting populations, conditions for which lead directly to the spectral theory for linear elliptic boundary value problems, so that the long-term viability of the populations can be expressed in terms of eigenvalues depending on the biological parameters of the models in directly quantifiable ways. We give a number of examples and demonstrate for the first time via reaction-diffusion equations that spatial heterogeneity can lead to coexistence in situations wherein extinction would result, were the habitat spatially homogeneous.
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U2 - 10.1216/rmjm/1181072101
DO - 10.1216/rmjm/1181072101
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0030541119
VL - 26
SP - 1
EP - 35
JO - Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics
JF - Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics
SN - 0035-7596
IS - 1
ER -