IMPULSIVE DISPERSAL OF PLANT SEEDS IN SINGLE SPECIES MODEL

Abstract

In this paper, a single species model with impulsive diffusion between two patches is proposed, which provides a more natural description of plant seeds dynamics compared with the continuous or discrete ones. By using the discrete dynamical system generated by a monotone, concave map for the dispersal model and a ∊1 - ∊2 variation, it is proved that the Poincare map has a globally stable positive fixed point. This implies that the system considered here has a globally stable positive periodic solution under some sufficient conditions. Further numerical simulations show that the diffusion can save the extinction though the species has a negative growth rate in one patch.