Citation

Parvinen K. Evolutionary Ecology Research 2007; 9(4): 619-633.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007)

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Abstract

Question: Can the Allee effect promote evolutionary suicide by dispersal evolution in a discrete-time metapopulation model? Mathematical methods: Adaptive dynamics. Features of model: Metapopulation consisting of infinitely many patches. Local dynamics, dispersal, and catastrophe events defined in discrete time.

RESULTS: Fitness-based calculations show that evolutionary suicide can happen in the model. Evolutionary simulations support the result. After evolutionary branching, dimorphic evolutionary suicide does not occur. © 2007 Kalle Parvinen.

Language: en

Keywords

Migration; Adaptive dynamics; Allee effect; Dispersal; Evolutionary suicide; Structured metapopulation