Stationary pattern and Hopf bifurcation of a diffusive predator–prey model

Abstract

This paper is concerned with a predator–prey model with prey-taxis and linear prey harvesting under the homogeneous Neumann boundary condition. The stability of the unique positive constant solution of the predator–prey model without prey-taxis is derived. Also, the emergence of Hopf bifurcation is concluded by choosing the proper Hopf bifurcation parameters. By the center manifold theorem and normal form, we compute the direction of Hopf bifurcation and the stability of the bifurcating solution. Moreover, the stationary pattern with prey-taxis is investigated. The conclusions show that prey harvesting and prey-taxis can enrich the dynamics.