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Dynamical study of harmful algal bloom in Sundarban mangrove wetland with spatial interaction and competing effects

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Sundarbans is the largest mangrove wetland ecosystem of the world with rich biodiversity suffering from deteriorated water quality due to excessive fertilization that leads to an uncontrolled increase in phytoplankton. Such eutrophication also changes the community structure and increases the harmful algal blooms (HABs). In this work, we propose an interacting population model for phytoplankton–zooplankton system in which the density of zooplankton is influenced by non-toxic phytoplankton (NTP) and toxin-producing phytoplankton (TPP) followed by Holling type II and Monod–Haldane (MH)-type functional response. The growth of zooplankton species is assumed to reduce due to toxic chemicals released by TPP population. The mathematical model of the proposed system includes the competition terms between TPP and NTP. System dynamics is studied in both cases, i.e., system with diffusion and without diffusion. For the non-diffusive system, we have investigated the condition for boundedness along with the existing criteria of all feasible equilibrium point. Stability analysis of the model system is carried out in detail for each equilibrium point. Forward and backward bifurcation diagrams are obtained for the temporal system in order to understand the behavior of different parameters that control the system dynamics. Theoretically, stability criteria and Turing instability of diffusive system are derived. In this study, we have taken a case of Sundarban mangrove wetland which is suffering from algal blooms due to the presence of toxic Dinoflagellates and Cyanophyceae. Our numerical investigation shows that the lower value of intraspecific interference of zooplankton promotes the complex spatiotemporal dynamics for the population of non-toxic, toxic phytoplankton and zooplankton. The higher value of inter-specific competition coefficient of NTP leads to reduction in zooplankton density that may cause bad health of the wetland system. This investigation renders the importance of diffusion in algal blooms by the occurrence of different Turing patterns and the role of time delay in destabilization of stationary points through the creation of limit cycles. We observed that the increasing value of diffusion coefficient of zooplankton and time allows the algal blooms to settle down from spot-strip mixture to spot patterns.

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This research work is supported by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India under Grant no. EMR/2017/000607 to the first author (Nilesh Kumar Thakur).

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Thakur, N.K., Singh, R. & Ojha, A. Dynamical study of harmful algal bloom in Sundarban mangrove wetland with spatial interaction and competing effects. Model. Earth Syst. Environ. 8, 555–577 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40808-021-01088-6

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