The species-area relationship and evolution

DOI10.1016/J.JTBI.2005.12.018zbMATH Open1447.92524arXivq-bio/0412024OpenAlexW2025818359WikidataQ33233110 ScholiaQ33233110MaRDI QIDQ2199236FDOQ2199236

Daniel John Lawson, Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen

Publication date: 16 September 2020

Published in: Journal of Theoretical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Models relating to the Species-Area curve are usually defined at the species level, and concerned only with ecological timescales. We examine an individual-based model of co-evolution on a spatial lattice based on the Tangled Nature model, and show that reproduction, mutation and dispersion by diffusion in an interacting system produces power-law Species-Area Relations as observed in ecological measurements at medium scales. We find that co-evolutionary habitats form, allowing high diversity levels in a spatially homogenous system, and these are maintained for exponentially increasing time when increasing system size.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0412024

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zbMATH Keywords

evolutionindividual-based modelinteractionecologyco-evolutionspecies-area relation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems related to evolution (92D15) Ecology (92D40)

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