The effects of spatial inhomogeneities in the initial distribution of immobile complexing
species on the spatiotemporal dynamics of activator-inhibitor systems are investigated. If the
initial concentration of the complexing species is below a critical value and homogeneously
distributed, the stable attractor is a limit cycle; for higher concentrations the stable attractor is
a Turing pattern. When the complexing agent is inhomogeneously distributed interactions
between the oscillatory dynamics and Turing pattern formation are possible. Such …