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Abstract: It is acknowledged that coral reefs are globally threatened. P.J. Mumby et al. [10] constructed a mathematical model with ordinary differential equations to investigate the dynamics of coral reefs. In this paper, we first provide a detailed global analysis of the coral reef ODE model in [10]. Next we incorporate the inherent time delay to obtain a mathematical model with delay differential equations. We consider the grazing intensity and the time delay as focused parameters and perform local stability analysis for the coral reef DDE model. If the time delay is sufficiently small, the stability results remain the same. However, if the time delay is large enough, macroalgae only state and coral only state are both unstable, while they are both stable in the ODE model. Meanwhile, if the grazing intensity and the time delay are endowed some suitable values, the DDE model possesses a nontrivial periodic solution, whereas the ODE model has no nontrivial periodic solutions for any grazing rate. We study the existence and property of the Hopf bifurcation points and the corresponding stability switching directions. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: A reaction–diffusion model with logistic type growth, nonlocal delay effect and Dirichlet boundary condition is considered, and combined effect of the time delay and nonlocal spatial dispersal provides a more realistic way of modeling the complex spatiotemporal behavior. The stability of the positive spatially nonhomogeneous positive equilibrium and associated Hopf bifurcation are investigated for the case of near equilibrium bifurcation point and the case of spatially homogeneous dispersal kernel. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]