 Emergent spatial organization of competing species under environmental stress and cooperationTon Viet Ta Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM), 2026, vol. 249, issue C, 472-489 Abstract: Understanding how species persist and coexist under interacting environmental stressors is a central challenge in ecology and global change biology. Here, we develop a spatially explicit reaction–diffusion (RD) framework to investigate the coupled eco–environmental dynamics of competing species in heterogeneous landscapes shaped by climate variability, anthropogenic pollution, resource heterogeneity, and cooperative interactions. Environmental temperature evolves through low-frequency oscillations resembling El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) dynamics, while pollution and resources diffuse from localized sources. Species growth is governed by density-dependent competition constrained by a dynamically evolving carrying capacity that integrates abiotic stressors with an endogenous cooperation field, which itself follows RD dynamics and is degraded by pollution. Keywords: Reaction–diffusion systems; Spatial ecology; Species competition and coexistence; Environmental stressors; Cooperation dynamics; Pattern formation, deep learning (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:matcom:v:249:y:2026:i:c:p:472-489 DOI: 10.1016/j.matcom.2026.05.033 Access Statistics for this article Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM) is currently edited by Robert Beauwens More articles in Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM) from Elsevier |
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