Pattern formation in a diffusive intraguild predation model with nonlocal interaction effects

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the spatiotemporal pattern formation in a diffusive intraguild predation (IGP) model with a nonlocal interaction term in the growth of the shared resource, which extends previous studies of local reaction-diffusion IGP model. We first perform the stability and Hopf bifurcation analyses for the unique positive equilibrium of the corresponding non-spatial system, and give analytical formulas to determine the direction and stability of the bifurcating periodic solutions. Then the linear stability analysis for the nonlocal model shows that the nonlocal interaction is a key mechanism for the formation of Turing patterns. Numerical simulations show that low conversion rate from resource to IG predator can induce stationary Turing patterns, intermediate conversion rate can induce regular oscillatory patterns, and high conversion rate can induce irregular spatiotemporal chaotic patterns for certain diffusive rate. The impact of nonlocal interaction on the resulting patterns with certain diffusive rate is further explored by numerical simulations, which show that nonlocal interaction can induce pattern transition from stationary Turing patterns to non-stationary oscillatory patterns, and even to spatiotemporal chaotic patterns with the increase of the nonlocal interaction tensity. In addition, spatiotemporal chaotic patterns are found in the Turing-Hopf parametric space, which enrich pattern dynamics for diffusive IGP models with nonlocal interactions.