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Sandra Merchant
IAM Ph.D. Student, Department of Mathematics

Spatiotemporal Pattern Formation and Stability in Predator-Prey Invasions

Localized introduction of predators to prey populations has been shown in several models to induce complex spatiotemporal patterns, including fronts, wavetrains and spatiotemporal chaos. I will discuss the existence and stability of wavetrains for a reaction-diffusion predator-prey system.

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