Spreading under shifting climate by a free boundary model: Invasion of deteriorated environment

Title
Spreading under shifting climate by a free boundary model: Invasion of deteriorated environment
Publication Date
2021-12
Author(s)
Hu, Yuanyang
Hao, Xinan
Du, Yihong
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1235-0636
Email: ydu@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ydu
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Place of publication
Singapore
DOI
10.1142/S0219199720500777
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/38744
Abstract

In this paper, we consider a free boundary model in one space dimension which describes the spreading of a species subject to climate change, where favorable environment is shifting away with a constant speed c > 0 and replaced by a deteriorated yet still favorable environment. We obtain two threshold speeds c1 < c0 and a complete classification of the long-time dynamics of the model, which reveals significant differences between the cases 0 < c < c1, c = c1, c1 < c < c0 and c ≥ c0. For example, when c1 < c < c0, for a suitably parameterized family of initial functions uσ0 increasing continuously in σ, we show that there exists 0 < σ < σ < ∞ such that the species vanishes eventually when σ ∈ (0, σ], it spreads with asymptotic speed c1 when σ ∈ (σ, σ), it spreads with forced speed c when σ = σ, and it spreads with speed c0 when σ > σ. Moreover, in the last case, while the spreading front propagates with asymptotic speed c0, the profile of the population density function u(t, x) approaches a propagating pair consisting of a traveling wave with speed c and a semi-wave with speed c0.

Link
Citation
Communications in Contemporary Mathematics, 23(8), p. 1-49
ISSN
1793-6683
0219-1997
Start page
1
End page
49

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