Effect of harvesting, delay and diffusion in a generalist predator-prey model

In compared with specialist predators which feed almost exclusively on a specific species of prey, generalist predators feed on many types of species. Consequently, their dynamics is not coupled to the dynamics of a specific prey population, and the generalist predators has itself growth function which be extended a well-known logistic growth term. We develop a generalist predator-prey model with diffusion and study the effect of harvesting and delay under Neumann conditions. The stability of the equilibria is firstly investigated, and the existence of traveling wave solutions is then established by constructing a pair of upper-lower solutions and using the cross iteration method and Schauder's fixed point theorem.

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