BIFURCATION AND STABILITY OF A TWO-SPECIES DIFFUSIVE LOTKA-VOLTERRA MODEL

This paper is devoted to a two-species Lotka-Volterra model with general functional response. The existence, local and global stability of boundary (including trivial and semi-trivial) steady-state solutions are analyzed by means of the signs of the associated principal eigenvalues. Moreover, the nonexistence and steady-state bifurcation of coexistence steady-state solutions at each of the boundary steady states are investigated. In particular, the coincidence of bifurcating coexistence steady-state solution branches is also described. It should be pointed out that the methods we applied here are mainly based on spectral analysis, perturbation theory, comparison principle, monotone theory, Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction, and bifurcation theory.