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Can a Species Keep Pace with a Shifting Climate?
Authors:H Berestycki  O Diekmann  C J Nagelkerke  P A Zegeling
Institution:(1) école des hautes études en sciences sociales, CAMS, 54 Boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris, France;(2) Department of Mathematics, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80010, 3508, TA, Utrecht, The Netherlands;(3) Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 320, 1098, SM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Abstract:Consider a patch of favorable habitat surrounded by unfavorable habitat and assume that due to a shifting climate, the patch moves with a fixed speed in a one-dimensional universe. Let the patch be inhabited by a population of individuals that reproduce, disperse, and die. Will the population persist? How does the answer depend on the length of the patch, the speed of movement of the patch, the net population growth rate under constant conditions, and the mobility of the individuals? We will answer these questions in the context of a simple dynamic profile model that incorporates climate shift, population dynamics, and migration. The model takes the form of a growth-diffusion equation. We first consider a special case and derive an explicit condition by glueing phase portraits. Then we establish a strict qualitative dichotomy for a large class of models by way of rigorous PDE methods, in particular the maximum principle. The results show that mobility can both reduce and enhance the ability to track climate change that a narrow range can severely reduce this ability and that population range and total population size can both increase and decrease under a moving climate. It is also shown that range shift may be easier to detect at the expanding front, simply because it is considerably steeper than the retreating back.
Keywords:Climate change  Reaction–  diffusion equation  Traveling wave  Moving favorable patch  Co-moving population profile  Persistence  Extinction  Principal eigenvalue
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