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In nature, different species compete among themselves for common resources and favorable habitat. Therefore, it becomes really important to determine the key factors in maintaining the bio-diversity. Also, some competing species follow cyclic competition in real world where the competitive dominance is characterized by a cyclic ordering. In this paper, we study the formation of a wide variety of spatiotemporal patterns including stationary, periodic, quasi-periodic and chaotic population distributions for a diffusive Lotka–Volterra type three-species cyclic competition model with two different types of cyclic ordering. For both types of cyclic ordering, the temporal dynamics of the corresponding non-spatial system show the extinction of two species through global bifurcations such as homoclinic and heteroclinic bifurcations. For the spatial system, we show that the existence of Turing patterns is possible for a particular cyclic ordering, while it is not the case for the other cyclic ordering through both the analytical and numerical methods. Further, we illustrate an interesting scenario of short-range invasion as opposed to the usual invasion phenomenon over the entire habitat. Also, our study reveals that both the stationary and dynamic population distributions can coexist in different parts of a habitat. Finally, we extend the spatial system by incorporating nonlocal intra-specific competition terms for all the three competing species. Our study shows that the introduction of nonlocality in intra-specific competitions stabilizes the system dynamics by transforming a dynamic population distribution to stationary. Surprisingly, this nonlocality-induced stationary pattern formation leads to the extinction of one species and hence, gives rise to the loss of bio-diversity for intermediate ranges of nonlocality. However, the bio-diversity can be restored for sufficiently large extent of nonlocality.
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The first author gratefully acknowledges the financial support provided by Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur for pursuing his post-doctoral research. The second author was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation: agreement no. 075-03-2020-223/3 (FSSF-2020-0018). The work of the third author was supported by SERB grant MTR/2018/000527. The authors express their gratitude to the learned reviewers for the insightful comments and suggestions.
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Here, we present the phase portraits of the spatially averaged densities of all the three competitive species for the dynamic patterns illustrated in Fig. 4. Thus, it would be appropriate to define what we mean by the spatially averaged densities. The spatially averaged densities \(<N_{j}>(t)\) over an one-dimensional spatial domain \([-L,L]\) are given by
for \(j=1,2,3\).
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Manna, K., Volpert, V. & Banerjee, M. Pattern Formation in a Three-Species Cyclic Competition Model. Bull Math Biol 83, 52 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-021-00886-4
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