Dynamics of a diffusion-advection Lotka-Volterra competition model with stage structure in a spatially heterogeneous environment

Abstract

In this paper, we study a diffusion-advection Lotka-Volterra competition model with stage structure in a spatially heterogeneous environment. The existence and local asymptotic stability of spatially non-homogeneous semi-trivial steady-state solutions and spatially non-homogeneous positive steady-state solutions are obtained by the implicit function theorem and spectral analysis. We show that three scenarios can occur: if random diffusion rates of two species are sufficiently large, both species go extinct; if random diffusion rates of two species are relatively small, two competing species coexist; if one species has a large random diffusion rate and the other has a small random diffusion rate, the species with a large random diffusion rate are driven to extinction. An interesting finding is that a large delay does not lead to Hopf bifurcation at the spatially non-homogeneous steady-state solution, but makes this steady-state solution approach zero. We numerically demonstrate the effects of spatial heterogeneity on spatiotemporal dynamics.