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Joint Evolution of Specialization and Dispersal in Structured Metapopulations by Tuomas Nurmi; Kalle Parvinen is a Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Joint Evolution of Specialization and Dispersal in Structured Metapopulations about?
We study the joint evolution of dispersal and specialization concerning resource usage in a mechanistically underpinned structured discrete-time metapopulation model. We show that dispersal significantly affects the evolution of specialization and that specialization is a key factor that determines the possibility of evolutionary branching in dispersal propensity. Allowing both dispersal propensity and specialization to evolve as a consequence of natural selection is necessary in order to understand the evolutionary dynamics. The joint evolution of dispersal and specialization forms a natural evolutionary path leading to the coexistence of generalists and specialists. We show that in this process, the number of different patch types and the resource distribution are essential.
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- Author
- Tuomas Nurmi; Kalle Parvinen
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Inc.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0022-5193)
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)