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Around the stable fixed point, bifurcation analyses including: flip, Neimark-Sacker and Turing bifurcation were done and bifurcation conditions were obtained. Based on these bifurcation conditions, parameters values were selected to carry out numerical simulations on pattern formation. The simulation results showed that Neimark-Sacker bifurcation induced spots, spirals and transitional patterns from spots to spirals. Turing bifurcation induced labyrinth patterns and spirals coupled with mosaic patterns, while flip bifurcation induced many irregular complex patterns. Compared with former studies on continuous predator-prey model with Lesie-Gower functional response, our research on the discrete model demonstrated more complex dynamics and varieties of self-organized patterns.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e19060258","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,6,7]],"date-time":"2017-06-07T10:01:20Z","timestamp":1496829680000},"page":"258","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Self-Organized Patterns Induced by Neimark-Sacker, Flip and Turing Bifurcations in a Discrete Predator-Prey Model with Lesie-Gower Functional Response"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Feifan","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center for Engineering Ecology and Nonlinear Science, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8898-8567","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Huayong","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center for Engineering Ecology and Nonlinear Science, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shengnan","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center for Engineering Ecology and Nonlinear Science, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tianxiang","family":"Meng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center for Engineering Ecology and Nonlinear Science, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tousheng","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center for Engineering Ecology and Nonlinear Science, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hongju","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center for Engineering Ecology and Nonlinear Science, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,6,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"429","DOI":"10.2307\/1940297","article-title":"Metapopulations, dispersal, and predator-prey dynamics: An overview","volume":"71","author":"Taylor","year":"1990","journal-title":"Ecology"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"299","DOI":"10.1016\/j.tpb.2003.11.001","article-title":"Stabilizing effects in spatial parasitoid-host and predator-prey models: A review","volume":"65","author":"Briggs","year":"2004","journal-title":"Theor. 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