Persistence and propagation of a discrete-time map and PDE hybrid model with strong Allee effect

Persistence and propagation of species are fundamental questions in spatial ecology. This paper focuses on the impact of Allee effect on the persistence and propagation of a population with birth pulse. We investigate the threshold dynamics of an impulsive reaction-diffusion model and provide the existence of bistable traveling waves connecting two stable equilibria. To prove the existence of bistable waves, we extend the method of monotone semiflows to impulsive reaction-diffusion systems. We use the methods of upper and lower solutions and the convergence theorem for monotone semiflows to prove the global stability of traveling waves and their uniqueness up to translation. Then we enhance the stability of bistable traveling waves to global exponential stability. Numerical simulations illustrate our theoretical results. (C) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.