Spatiotemporal dynamics in a diffusive Holling-Tanner model near codimension-two bifurcations

Abstract

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>We investigate spatiotemporal patterns near the Turing-Hopf and double Hopf bifurcations in a diffusive Holling-Tanner model on a one- dimensional spatial domain. Local and global stability of the positive constant steady state for the non-delayed system is studied. Introducing the generation time delay in prey growth, we discuss the existence of Turing-Hopf and double Hopf bifurcations and give the explicit dynamical classification near these bifurcation points. Finally, we obtain the complicated dynamics, including periodic oscillations, quasi-periodic oscillations on a three-dimensional torus, the coexistence of two stable nonconstant steady states, the coexistence of two spatially inhomogeneous periodic solutions, and strange attractors.</p>