Spatial propagation of a nonlocal dispersal cooperation model under a shifting habitat: Acceleration or not?

Abstract

In this paper, we study the spreading properties of a nonlocal dispersal reducible cooperation model under a shifting habitat. By considering the corresponding upper and lower control systems, we find that the left and right expansion fronts of the solutions with exponentially unbounded kernels propagate with finite speed and infinite speed, respectively. This is quite different from the case of exponentially bounded kernels (Wang and Li, 2020), in which the expansion fronts of the solutions always spread to the left and right with finite speeds. That is to say, we have found a new phenomenon that linear extension and accelerating propagation appear at the same time for such a system.