Turing patterns in an intraguild predator–prey model

Abstract

Intraguild predation, representing a true combination of predation and competition between two species that rely on a common resource, is of foremost importance in many natural communities. We investigate a spatial model of three species interaction, characterized by a Holling type II functional response and linear cross-diffusion. For this model we report necessary and sufficient conditions ensuring the insurgence of Turing instability for the coexistence equilibrium; we also obtain conditions characterizing the different patterns by multiple scale analysis. Numerical experiments confirm the occurrence of different scenarios of Turing instability, also including Turing–Hopf patterns.