In this paper, we study the Hopf bifurcation and spatiotemporal pattern formation of a delayed diffusive logistic model under Neumann boundary condition with spatial heterogeneity. It is shown that for large diffusion coefficient, a supercritical Hopf bifurcation occurs near the non-homogeneous positive steady state at a critical time delay value, and the dependence of corresponding spatiotemporal patterns on the heterogeneous resource function is demonstrated via numerical simulations. Moreover, it is proved that the heterogeneous resource supply contributes to the increase of the temporal average of total biomass of the population even though the total biomass oscillates periodically in time.
Some quantities in the reaction-diffusion models from cellular biology or ecology depend on the spatial average of density functions instead of local density functions. We show that such nonlocal spatial average can induce instability of constant steady state, which is different from classical Turing instability. For a general scalar equation with spatial average, the occurrence of the steady state bifurcation is rigorously proved, and the formula to determine the bifurcation direction and the stability of the bifurcating steady state is given. For the two-species model, spatially non-homogeneous time-periodic orbits could arise due to spatially non-homogeneous Hopf bifurcation from the constant equilibrium. Examples from a nonlocal cooperative Lotka-Volterra model and a nonlocal Rosenzweig-MacArthur predator-prey model are used to demonstrate the bifurcation of spatially non-homogeneous patterns.
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