Coevolution of the reckless prey and the patient predator

DOI10.1016/J.JTBI.2021.110873zbMATH Open1472.92154arXiv2103.13156OpenAlexW3194082707WikidataQ114153931 ScholiaQ114153931MaRDI QIDQ2235517FDOQ2235517

Authors: Cecilia Berardo, Stefan Geritz 

Publication date: 21 October 2021

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

Abstract: The war of attrition in game theory is a model of a stand-off situation between two opponents where the winner is determined by its persistence. We model a stand-off between a predator and a prey when the prey is hiding and the predator is waiting for the prey to come out from its refuge, or when the two are locked in a situation of mutual threat of injury or even death. The stand-off is resolved when the predator gives up or when the prey tries to escape. Instead of using the asymmetric war of attrition, we embed the stand-off as an integral part of the predator-prey model of Rosenzweig and MacArthur derived from first principles. We apply this model to study the coevolution of the giving-up rates of the prey and the predator, using the adaptive dynamics approach. We find that the long term evolutionary process leads to three qualitatively different scenarios: the predator gives up immediately, while the prey never gives up; the predator never gives up, while the prey adopts any giving-up rate greater than or equal to a given positive threshold value; the predator goes extinct. We observe that some results are the same as for the asymmetric war of attrition, but others are quite different.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.13156

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zbMATH Keywords

adaptive dynamicspredator-prey modelevolutionary game theoryasymmetric war of attritionstand-off

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems related to evolution (92D15) Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Ecology (92D40)

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