Positive Coexistence of Steady States for a Diffusive Ratio-Dependent Predator-Prey Model with an Infected Prey

We examine a diffusive ratio-dependent predator-prey system with disease in the prey under homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions with a hostile environment at its boundary. We investigate the positive coexistence of three interacting species (susceptible prey, infected prey, and predator) and pr...

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Main Authors: Kwangjoong Kim, Inkyung Ahn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2015-01-01
Series:Journal of Function Spaces
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/810451
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Summary:We examine a diffusive ratio-dependent predator-prey system with disease in the prey under homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions with a hostile environment at its boundary. We investigate the positive coexistence of three interacting species (susceptible prey, infected prey, and predator) and provide nonexistence conditions of positive solutions to the system. In addition, the global stability of the trivial and semitrivial solutions to the system is studied. Furthermore, the biological interpretation based on the result is also presented. The methods are employed from a comparison argument for the elliptic problem as well as the fixed-point theory as applied to a positive cone on a Banach space.
ISSN:2314-8896
2314-8888