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This paper is concerned with the propagation phenomena for a nonlocal dispersal Lotka–Volterra competition model with shifting habitats. It is assumed that the growth rate of each species is nondecreasing along the x-axis, positive near ∞ and nonpositive near - ∞ , and shifting rightward with a speed c > 0 . In the case where both species coexist near ∞ , we established three types of forced waves connecting the origin, respectively to the coexistence state with any forced speed c; to itself with forced speed c > c ∗ (∞) ; and to a semi-trivial steady state with forced speed c > c ¯ (∞) , where c ∗ (∞) and c ¯ (∞) are two positive numbers. In the case where one species is competitively stronger near ∞ , we also obtain the existence and nonexistence of forced waves connecting the origin to the semi-trivial steady state. Our results show the existence of multiple types of forced waves with the same forced speed. The mathematical proofs involve integral equations and Schauder's fixed point theorem, and heavily rely on the construction of various upper-lower solutions, which adds new techniques to deal with the "shifting environments" problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is concerned with the spatial propagation of bistable nonlocal dispersal equations in exterior domains. We first obtain the existence and uniqueness of an entire solution which behaves like a planar traveling wave front for large negative time. Then, when the entire solution comes to the interior domain, the profile of the front will be disturbed. However, the disturbance is local in space for finite time, which means the disturbance disappears as its location is far away from the interior domain. Furthermore, we prove that the solution can gradually recover its planar wave profile uniformly in space and continue to propagate in the same direction for large positive time provided that the interior domain is compact and convex. Our work generalizes the local (Laplace) diffusion results obtained by Berestycki et al. (2009) to the nonlocal dispersal setting by using new known Liouville results and Lipschitz continuity of entire solutions due to Li et al. (2010). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is devoted to the study of propagation dynamics for a time periodic nonlocal dispersal model with stage structure. In the case where the birth rate function is monotone, we establish the existence of the spreading speed and its coincidence with the minimal wave speed for monotone periodic traveling waves by appealing to the theory developed for monotone semiflows. In the case where the birth rate function is non-monotone, we first obtain the spreading properties by the squeezing technique combined with some known results for the monotone case, and then investigate the existence of periodic traveling waves by using the asymptotic fixed point theorem due to the lack of parabolic estimates and compactness. Finally, we apply the general results to the Nicholson's blowflies model for its spatial dynamics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with entire solutions of a nonlocal dispersal epidemic model. Unlike local (random) dispersal problems, a nonlocal dispersal operator is not compact and the solutions of nonlocal dispersal system studied here lack regularity in suitable spaces, which affects the uniform convergence of the solution sequences and the technique details in constructing the entire solutions. In the monostable case, some new types of entire solutions are constructed by combining leftward and rightward traveling fronts with different speeds and a spatially independent solution. In the bistable case, the existence of many different entire solutions with merging fronts are proved by constructing different sub- and super-solutions. Various qualitative features of the entire solutions are also investigated. A key idea is to characterize the asymptotic behaviors of the traveling wave solutions at infinite in terms of appropriate sub- and super-solutions. Finally, we also obtain the smoothness of the entire solutions in space, i.e., the solutions established in our paper are global Lipschitz continuous in space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is concerned with the propagation phenomenon of a three species predator–prey system in a shifting environment with nonlocal dispersal. Assuming that the growth rate of each prey is moving to the right at a speed of s and the habitat is suitable for each prey to survive before the shifting edge, while the habitat behind the boundary is not suitable for survival. For any given speed of the shifting habitat edge, we obtain the existence of two different types of forced waves. On the one hand, we demonstrate the existence of front type forced waves connecting coexistence state to the origin at any forced velocity. On the other hand, we obtain the existence and nonexistence of mixed front-pulse type forced waves which connect semi-trivial states to the origin and only one prey state to the origin at super-critical speeds. Particularly, we also demonstrate the existence of these waves with critical speeds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]