On Nonlinear Waves in the Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Interacting Populations

In this paper the spatial-temporal dynamics of the members of interacting populations is described by nonlinear partial differential equations. We consider the migration as a diffusion process influenced by the changing values of the birth rates and coefficients of interaction between the populations. For the particular case of one population and one spatial dimension the general model is reduced to analytically tractable PDE with polynomial nonlinearity up to third order. By applying the modified method of simplest equation to the described model we obtain an analytical solution which describes nonlinear kink and solitary waves in the population dynamics.