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. Mating and reproduction is described by a (positively) homogeneous function (of degree one). We identify a basic reproduction number R0 that acts as a threshold between extinction and persistence. If R0 < 1, the population dies out while it persists (uniformly weakly) if R0 > 1. R0 is the cone spectral radius of a bounded homogeneous map.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 3209-3218 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B |
Volume | 19 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 1 2014 |
Keywords
- Basic reproduction number
- Cone spectral radius
- Difference equation
- Discrete dynamical system
- Discrete semi-flow
- Eigenvector
- Homogeneous map
- Impulsive reaction diffusion system
- Ordered Banach space
- Stability.
- Two-sex population
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
- Applied Mathematics