About reaction-diffusion systems involving the Holling-type II and the Beddington-DeAngelis functional responses for predator-prey models

Abstract

We consider in this paper a microscopic model (that is, a system of three reaction-diffusion equations) incorporating the dynamics of handling and searching predators, and show that its solutions converge when a small parameter tends to $0$ towards the solutions of a reaction-cross diffusion system of predator-prey type involving a Holling-type II or Beddington-DeAngelis functional response. We also provide a study of the Turing instability domain of the obtained equations and (in the case of the Beddington-DeAngelis functional response) compare it to the same instability domain when the cross diffusion is replaced by a standard diffusion.