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Author Spotlight: Impact of Physical Barriers on Rodent Populations in Farmland Areas
Published on: March 8, 2024
Can a barrier zone stop invasion of a population?
Bingtuan Li1, Minghua Zhang2, Bradley Coffman2
1Department of Mathematics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 40292, USA. bing.li@louisville.edu.
Abstract:
We consider an integro-difference model to study the effect of a stationary barrier zone on invasion of a population with a strong Allee effect. It is assumed that inside the barrier zone a certain proportion of the population is killed. A Laplace dispersal kernel is used in the model. We provide a formula for the critical width [Formula: see text] of barrier zone. We show that when a barrier zone is set at the front of a population, if the width of barrier zone is bigger than [Formula: see text] then the barrier zone can stop the population invasion, and if the width of barrier zone is less than [Formula: see text] then the population crosses the barrier zone and eventually occupies the entire space. The results are proven by establishing the existence and attractivity of three types of equilibrium solutions. The mathematical proofs involve phase plane analysis and comparison.
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