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The effects of habitat heterogeneity on a diffusing population are investigated here. We formulate a reaction-diffusion system of partial differential equations to analyze the effect of resource allocation in an ecosystem with resource having its own dynamics in space and time. We show a priori estimates to prove the existence of state solutions given a control. We formulate an optimal control problem of our ecosystem model such that the abundance of a single species is maximized while minimizing the cost of inflow resource allocation. In addition, we show the existence and uniqueness of the optimal control as well as the optimal control characterization. We also establish the existence of an optimal intermediate diffusion rate. Moreover, we illustrate several numerical simulations with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions with the space domain in 1D and 2D.
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Valega-Mackenzie, W., Bintz, J. & Lenhart, S. Resource allocation in a PDE ecosystem model. J. Math. Biol. 86, 96 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00285-023-01932-6
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