Nonlocal cooperative behaviour, psychological effects, and collective decision-making: an exemplification with predator-prey models

Sangeeta Saha; Swadesh Pal; Roderick Melnik

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Nonlocal cooperative behaviour, psychological effects, and collective decision-making: an exemplification with predator-prey models

Sangeeta Saha·Swadesh Pal·Roderick Melnik

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In bio-social models, cooperative behaviour has evolved as an adaptive strategy, playing multi-functional roles. One of such roles in populations is to increase the success of survival and reproduction of individuals and their families or social groups. Moreover, collective decision-making in cooperative behaviour is an aspect that is used to study the dynamic behaviour of individuals within a social group. In this paper, we have focused on population dynamics by considering a predator-prey model as our main exemplification, where the generalist predator has adopted a cooperative hunting strategy while consuming their prey. In particular, we have analyzed the dynamic nature of the system when a nonlocal term is introduced in the cooperation. First, the Turing instability condition has been studied for the local model around the coexisting steady-state, followed by the Turing and non-Turing patterns in the presence of the nonlocal interaction term. This work is also concerned with the existence of travelling wave solutions for predator-prey interaction with the nonlocal cooperative hunting strategy. Such solutions are reported for local as well as for nonlocal models. We have characterized the invading speed of the predator with the help of the minimal wave speed of travelling wave solutions connecting the predator-free state to the co-existence state. The travelling waves are found to be non-monotonic in this system. The formation of wave trains has been demonstrated for an extended range of nonlocal interactions. Finally, the importance of psychological effects in shaping the dynamics of nonlocal collective behaviour is demonstrated with several representative examples.

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Sangeeta Saha, Swadesh Pal, Roderick Melnik. 2024-06-15. Nonlocal cooperative behaviour, psychological effects, and collective decision-making: an exemplification with predator-prey models. https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10713

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