Spatiotemporal dynamics of a diffusive predator-prey system incorporating social behavior

This research concerned with a new formulation of a spatial predator-prey model with Leslie-Gower and Holling type II schemes in the presence of prey social behavior. The aim interest here is to distinguish the influence of Leslie-Gower term on the spatiotemporal behavior of the model. Interesting results are obtained as Hopf bifurcation, Turing bifurcation and Turing-Hopf bifurcation. A rigorous mathematical analysis shows that the presence of Leslie-Gower can induce Turing pattern, which shows that this kind of interaction is very important in modeling different natural phenomena. The direction of Turing-Hopf bifurcation is studied with the help of the normal form. The obtained results are tested numerically.