title: Scramble competitions can rescue endangered species subject to strong Allee effects.
abstract: In this article, we study population dynamics of a general two-species discrete-time competition model where each species suffers from both strong Allee effects and scramble intra-specific competitions. We focus on how the combinations of the scramble intra-specific and inter-specific competition affect the extinction and coexistence of these two competing species where each species is subject to strong Allee effects. We derive sufficient conditions on the extinction, essential-like extinction and coexistence for such models. One of the most interesting findings is that scramble competitions can promote coexistence of these two species at their high densities. This is supported by the outcome of single species models with strong Allee effects. In addition, we apply theoretical results to a symmetric competition model with strong Allee effects induced by predator saturations where we give a completed study of its possible equilibria and attractors. Numerical simulations are performed to support our results.
authors.affiliation: Applied Sciences and Mathematics, Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ 85212, USA. yun.kang@asu.edu
authors.forename: Yun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003163:Competitive Behavior; D056727:Endangered Species; D053476:Extinction, Biological; D055641:Mathematical Concepts; D008954:Models, Biological; D011157:Population Dynamics