Shifts of dominant personality and spatial pattern formation due to spatially heterogeneous pollution
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| author | Wang, Tianxu Sim, Jiwoon Wang, Hao |
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| contents | Personality traits, such as boldness and shyness, play a significant role in shaping the survival strategies of animals. Industrial pollution has long posed serious threats to ecosystems and is typically distributed heterogeneously. However, how animals with different personalities respond to spatially heterogeneous pollution remains largely unexplored. In this study, we introduce a prey-taxis model with nonlinear cross-diffusion to examine population dynamics in such environments. The global existence of classical solutions is established by deriving initial bounds through energy estimates and improving solution regularity via heat kernel properties and a bootstrap process. Our findings reveal that behavior, population structure, and spatial distribution are heavily influenced by pollution. Bold individuals maintain a competitive advantage in pollution-free or very low-toxin environments, whereas shy individuals become dominant in regions with low to moderate toxin levels. In highly polluted areas, no populations can survive. The spatial pattern of the population is also closely tied to the distribution of toxins. Grazers tend to move along toxin gradient and exhibit periodic behavior. As toxin concentrations rise, aggregation behavior becomes increasingly pronounced across all species. Interestingly, the total population in polluted areas may initially increase when toxin levels are low to moderate, but eventually declines, leading to extinction as toxin levels continue to rise. |
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| spellingShingle | Shifts of dominant personality and spatial pattern formation due to spatially heterogeneous pollution Wang, Tianxu Sim, Jiwoon Wang, Hao Populations and Evolution 35K40, 35K55, 92C15, 92D25, 35A01 Personality traits, such as boldness and shyness, play a significant role in shaping the survival strategies of animals. Industrial pollution has long posed serious threats to ecosystems and is typically distributed heterogeneously. However, how animals with different personalities respond to spatially heterogeneous pollution remains largely unexplored. In this study, we introduce a prey-taxis model with nonlinear cross-diffusion to examine population dynamics in such environments. The global existence of classical solutions is established by deriving initial bounds through energy estimates and improving solution regularity via heat kernel properties and a bootstrap process. Our findings reveal that behavior, population structure, and spatial distribution are heavily influenced by pollution. Bold individuals maintain a competitive advantage in pollution-free or very low-toxin environments, whereas shy individuals become dominant in regions with low to moderate toxin levels. In highly polluted areas, no populations can survive. The spatial pattern of the population is also closely tied to the distribution of toxins. Grazers tend to move along toxin gradient and exhibit periodic behavior. As toxin concentrations rise, aggregation behavior becomes increasingly pronounced across all species. Interestingly, the total population in polluted areas may initially increase when toxin levels are low to moderate, but eventually declines, leading to extinction as toxin levels continue to rise. |
| title | Shifts of dominant personality and spatial pattern formation due to spatially heterogeneous pollution |
| topic | Populations and Evolution 35K40, 35K55, 92C15, 92D25, 35A01 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12578 |