Fig. 10

Left: Snapshot of the spatial pattern, and Right: time series plot of the spatial average of susceptible prey for (a, b) \(\tau _2=5\), (c, d) \(\tau _2=8\), (e, f) \(\tau _2=28\) and other parameters as in (46) with \(\tau _1=0\). This figure shows that spatial heterogeneity acts as a buffering mechanism.