Evolution of anisotropic diffusion in two-dimensional heterogeneous environments

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Abstract: We consider a system of two competing populations in two-dimensional heterogeneous environments. The populations are assumed to move horizontally and vertically with different probabilities, but are otherwise identical. We regard these probabilities as dispersal strategies. We show that the evolutionarily stable strategies are to move in one direction only. Our results predict that it is more beneficial for the species to choose the direction with smaller variation in the resource distribution. This finding seems to be in agreement with the classical results of Hasting [15] and Dockery et al. [11] for the evolution of slow dispersal, i.e. random diffusion is selected against in spatially heterogeneous environments. These conclusions also suggest that broader dispersal strategies should be considered regarding the movement in heterogeneous habitats.


This work addresses the preferable strategy of population dispersal in a two-dimensional heterogeneous environment; the random movements of individuals are assumed to be different in two orthogonal directions. Singel and two-species competition situations are considered. The most non-trivial result of the exploration of such a system consists in the conclusion that the only evolutionary stable dispersal strategy for two competing populations is the one-directional movement. This conclusion is supported and illustrated by the results of numerical simulations.



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