Existence and asymptotic behavior of solutions for a mathematical ecology model with herd behavior

Abstract

In this work, we consider a prey‐predator model with herd behavior under Neumann boundary conditions. For the system without diffusion, we establish a sufficient condition to guarantee the local asymptotic stability of all nontrivial equilibria and prove the existence of limit cycle of our proposed model. For the system with diffusion, we consider the long time behavior of the model including global attractor and local stability, and the Hopf and steady‐state bifurcation analysis from the unique homogeneous positive steady state are carried out in detail. Furthermore, some numerical simulations to illustrate the theoretical analysis are performed to expand our theoretical results.