Local stability of evolutionary attractors for continuous structured populations (Q663340)

Adaptive dynamics is a branch of evolutionary ecology, that aims at describing the Darwinian evolution of populations along a phenotypic trait, which characterizes each individual. This trait as well as the state of the resident population define the survival rate and reproduction rate of the individual. Adaptive dynamics provides in particular some conditions for a monomorphic population of a given trait to be stable with respect to evolution. Those stable populations are then called evolutionary attractors. The author considers the nonlinear stability of Dirac-type steady solutions to an integro-differential equation appearing in the study of populations which are structured with respect to a quantitative (continuous) trait. Then he shows that stability conditions of adaptive dynamics extend to this model.