On the global dynamics of a forest model with monotone positive feedback and memory

We continue to study (see arXiv:2401.08618, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2401.08618) a renewal equation φ(t)= Fφₜ proposed in [C. Barril et al., J. Math. Biology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00285-024-02084-x] to model trees growth. This time we are considering the case when the per capita reproduction rate β(x) is a non-monotone (unimodal) function of tree's height x. Note that the height of some species of trees can impact negatively seed viability, in a kind of autogamy depression. Similarly to previous works, it is also assumed that the growth rate $g(x)$ of an individual of height x is a strictly decreasing function. Here we analyse the connection between dynamics of the associated one-dimensional map F(b)= Fb, b ∈ R₊, and the delayed (hence infinite-dimensional) model φ(t)= Fφₜ. Our key observation is that this model is of monotone positive feedback type since F is strictly increasing on R₊ independently on the monotonicity properties of β.