Abstract
A model is considered for a spatially distributed population of male and female individuals that mate and reproduce only once in their life during a very short reproductive season. Between birth and mating, females and males move by diffusion on a bounded domain Ω under Dirichlet boundary conditions. Mating and reproduction are described by a (positively) homogeneous function (of degree one). We identify a basic reproduction number R0that acts as a threshold between extinction and persistence. If R0< 1 , the population dies out while it persists (uniformly weakly) if R0> 1. R0is the cone spectral radius of a bounded homogeneous map.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 689-705 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations |
Volume | 28 |
Issue number | 3-4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 1 2016 |
Keywords
- Cone spectral radius
- Discrete dynamical system
- Extinction
- Homogeneous map
- Order permanence
- Two-sex population
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Analysis