The nest site lottery: how selectively neutral density dependent growth suppression induces frequency dependent selection

DOI10.1016/J.TPB.2013.09.011zbMATH Open1303.92090arXiv1303.0564OpenAlexW3104637074WikidataQ51159884 ScholiaQ51159884MaRDI QIDQ487311FDOQ487311

Authors: Krzysztof Argasinski, M. Broom 

Publication date: 20 January 2015

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

Abstract: Modern developments in population dynamics emphasize the role of the turnover of individuals. In the new approaches stable population size is a dynamic equilibrium between different mortality and fecundity factors instead of an arbitrary fixed carrying capacity. The latest replicator dynamics models assume that regulation of the population size acts through feedback driven by density dependent juvenile mortality. Here, we consider a simplified model to extract the properties of this approach. We show that at the stable population size, the structure of the frequency dependent evolutionary game emerges. Turnover of individuals induces a lottery mechanism where for each nest site released by a dead adult individual a single newborn is drawn from the pool of newborn candidates. This frequency dependent selection leads toward the strategy maximizing the number of newborns per adult death. However, multiple strategies can maximize this value. Among them, the strategy with the greatest mortality (which implies greater instantaneous growth rate) is selected. This result is important for the discussion about universal fitness measures and which parameters are maximized by natural selection. This is related to the fitness measures R0 and r, because the number of newborns per single dead individual equals lifetime production of newborn R0 in models without ageing. Our model suggests the existence of another fitness measure which is the combination of R0 and r. According to the nest site lottery mechanism, at stable population size, selection favours strategies with the greatest r from those with the greatest R0.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.0564

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zbMATH Keywords

logistic equationdensity dependenceevolutionary gamelife historyfitness measuresfrequency dependent selection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Evolutionary games (91A22)

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