Positive solution of the PDE: $u_t=\Delta u+au-buv$, am I missing something?

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Consider the following system of partial differential equations taken from this paper:enter image description here

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I just want to know how the author got the inequality:

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I feel something is wrong since the term $a-bv$ may be nonpositive. Am I missing something?