Abstract:This note studies the spreading speed of the predator component in a class of prey--predator reaction--diffusion systems with spatiotemporal heterogeneity depending on a moving variable. The main difficulty is that the full system lacks a direct comparison principle. We establish a pointwise estimate showing that the prey density is close to its carrying capacity wherever the predator density is sufficiently small. This allows us to compare solutions of the system with those of scalar Fisher--KPP equations in shifting environments. Consequently, we obtain an explicit spreading speed of the predator. In particular, for nonmonotone shifting environments, locking and nonlocal pulling phenomena may occur.
From: Zhucheng Jin [view email]
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