Adaptive network dynamics and evolution of leadership in collective migration

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2013.04.014MaRDI QIDQ2448425zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Darren Pais, Naomi Ehrich Leonard

Publication date 30 April 2014

Published in Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.2242

zbMATH Keywords

adaptive networkscollective migrationevolutionary dynamicsleadershipsocial networks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mathematical geography and demography (91D20) Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

Abstract: The evolution of leadership in migratory populations depends not only on costs and benefits of leadership investments but also on the opportunities for individuals to rely on cues from others through social interactions. We derive an analytically tractable adaptive dynamic network model of collective migration with fast timescale migration dynamics and slow timescale adaptive dynamics of individual leadership investment and social interaction. For large populations, our analysis of bifurcations with respect to investment cost explains the observed hysteretic effect associated with recovery of migration in fragmented environments. Further, we show a minimum connectivity threshold above which there is evolutionary branching into leader and follower populations. For small populations, we show how the topology of the underlying social interaction network influences the emergence and location of leaders in the adaptive system. Our model and analysis can describe other adaptive network dynamics involving collective tracking or collective learning of a noisy, unknown signal, and likewise can inform the design of robotic networks where agents use decentralized strategies that balance direct environmental measurements with agent interactions.

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