Lévy flights in evolutionary ecology

DOI10.1007/S00285-011-0478-5zbMATH Open1311.92136arXiv1101.5715OpenAlexW2017011684WikidataQ51171159 ScholiaQ51171159MaRDI QIDQ455776FDOQ455776

Authors: Benjamin Jourdain, Sylvie Méléard, Wojbor A. Woyczyński 

Publication date: 22 October 2012

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

Abstract: We are interested in modeling Darwinian evolution resulting from the interplay of phenotypic variation and natural selection through ecological interactions. The population is modeled as a stochastic point process whose generator captures the probabilistic dynamics over continuous time of birth, mutation, and death, as influenced by each individual's trait values, and interactions between individuals. An offspring usually inherits the trait values of her progenitor, except when a random mutation causes the offspring to take an instantaneous mutation step at birth to new trait values. In the case we are interested in, the probability distribution of mutations has a heavy tail and belongs to the domain of attraction of a stable law. We investigate the large-population limit with allometric demographies: larger populations made up of smaller individuals which reproduce and die faster, as is typical for micro-organisms. We show that depending on the allometry coefficient the limit behavior of the population process can be approximated by nonlinear L'evy flights of different nature: either deterministic, in the form of nonlocal fractional reaction-diffusion equations, or stochastic, as nonlinear super-processes with the underlying reaction and a fractional diffusion operator. These approximation results demonstrate the existence of such nontrivial fractional objects; their uniqueness is also proved.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.5715

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zbMATH Keywords

mutation-selection dynamicsbirth-death-mutation-competition point processDarwinian evolutionmutation law with heavy tailnonlinear fractional reaction-diffusion equationsnonlinear superprocesses with fractional diffusionpunctuated equilibria

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Processes with independent increments; Lévy processes (60G51) Problems related to evolution (92D15) Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Ecology (92D40) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Superprocesses (60J68)

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